Milestones

This Sunday, June 28 is the first anniversary of Molly’s estimated due date (EDD) last year. Had she been healthy and born close to when she was due, we likely would have recently held or be soon having her first birthday party. Also, five years ago this week, when Sean was just nine months old, […]

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To quote Ferris Buller, “life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it.” The past month or so has seemed to just fly by and in effort not to miss my life, I have spent less time on the computer and put off sharing about Molly’s […]

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What we have once enjoyed and loved deeply, we can never lose. For all that we love deeply becomes a part of us. ~ Helen Keller So here we are, one year later. Spring has arrived. The tulips, daffodils and magnolias are beginning to bloom. Lent has come and gone and we are Easter people […]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It seems appropriate that one of Molly’s monthly milestones would fall on this date, being that we live on the South Side of Chicago close to the South Side Irish (SSI) parade route. Here is a picture of our family from this year’s parade. Around this time last year we got […]

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Today it has been ten months since Molly was born and went to Heaven. Reflecting on what was happening in mid-February last year, it is hard to believe how much time has passed since that critical and uncertain stage of our pregnancy, when we were doing everything we could to give our baby girl the […]

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Today it has been nine months since Molly was born and went to Heaven. It is bittersweet to recall where we were at this time last year, as we had just received Molly’s diagnosis of having a rare and severe combination of congenital heart defects. It is also around this time last year that a […]

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