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Dear Ethan V

Dear Ethan,   Sunday is the two-year anniversary of losing you. Two weeks later is the two-year anniversary of finding out we’d lost you.   The last couple weeks have been full of celebration around our house—first Henry’s birthday and aunts and uncles coming home, then Christmas, and last night, New Year’s Eve. Sometimes the […]

January 1, 2014

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Dear Ethan IV

Dear Ethan,   I wasn’t supposed to start missing you again until next week. I have hope in our new baby, growing well in me, and your due date isn’t until Monday. My emotions like to plan ahead, it seems, and just thinking about how tough next week is going to be broke me down […]

July 25, 2012

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To My Boys on Mother’s Day

Dear Jacob and Ethan,   Today is Mother’s Day, a day when children and families are supposed to tell the mothers in their lives how grateful they are for them. But I’m turning the tables. To me, this is a day for me to tell you how grateful I am for you.   Jacob, my […]

May 13, 2012

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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