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Christmas 2015
As you know if you’ve read this blog we have an amazing and growing family. You also know this was our first Christmas without our Shannon. While looking over past Christmas Eve photos we remembered...
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Sanity Saving Creativity
It’s tax day at our house. Mark is armed with his briefcase full of paperwork to take to our tax preparer. She’s known us for 13 years and helped us through several years of confusing paperwork due to...
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Loss and Legacy
At a routine doc appointment with Chad today, Mark thanked the doc for the lovely note he wrote us after learning of Shannie’s death last year. He never met Shannon, as she needed more specialized and...
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Some Holidays You Just Endure
Easter hasn’t been a truly fun carefree holiday for us for several years. If we really go back we’ve had quite a few springs in general that were difficult, but none like the last two. Two years ago...
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Luxury of Peace
Sunday was a gorgeous day here and we were bound and determined to enjoy it. Two of the kids had places to be, so me, daddy-o, Chad, Callie and little man headed to a park to walk around the pond. Two...
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When Prayer is a Weapon
Yesterday in a store parking lot I was chased down by a woman who asked to pray for my son. I had Chad with me and my grandson who is 8 mos. I knew she meant Chad and assumed, perhaps, she had a soft...
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Springtime has Arrived
Tomorrow Shannon would have been 19. She died 2 weeks before her 17th birthday, so even though the anniversary of her death is only a little over a year ago, we will now have missed two birthdays....
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An Era Ends
It’s been a good run, but a run that has ended. We are no longer parents to a child. More than half my life, 36 of my 60 years to be exact, I have been the mother of children. Today my youngest turned...
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Bathrooms for All
Let me be clear from the beginning, this will not be a political post. This post is about the dignity of every person to use the “facilities”. I know greater minds than mine have tried to figure this...
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Dear Typical Mom
Dear Typical Mom, I’m sorry. I’m sorry that when we lined up for seats on the Extreme Swings at the amusement park today your tween-age daughter got the seat next to my teenage daughter. Sorry that...
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