Category: parenting after loss
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is she your first?
We all have our own personal stories. When a question from a stranger, seemingly harmless, challenges our story, we are forced to question how much we actually want to reveal. For are forced to instantly decide what’s appropriate to share, and what’s not. In my case, now that my little baby is truly a toddler, she…
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three years ago: missing darla
“Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.”Psalm 139:16 NIV Three years ago today was both the best day and the worst day. We said “hello” and “goodbye” to a beautiful little girl that wasn’t meant to stay here,…
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my unknown blessing
It may not look like it at first glance, but these photos were taken in exactly the same spot. The top photo was two years ago, and the bottom is from a week ago. I like to do that sometimes, compare where I was and where I am. I like to think about how things have changed,…
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how we started again…
With the new year right around the corner, I can’t help but reflect back on this past year. I wanted to get real about what we’d been through. Although people go through so much worse than what we did, I still believe it’s important to share how we dug ourselves out, because everyone will face hills at some…
my western nest 