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“God is my refuge on the day of distress.”

This morning John, Jacob, and I attended a Mass offered for Ethan at our local church. I have much more coming on this and other ways we are remembering our little one, but for now, I wanted to share part of the readings at the Mass. The readings today were not chosen for our occasion; […]

August 1, 2012

Faith, Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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Answers

There are a lot of questions that I neither pretend nor expect to have answers to: why we lost our baby; why we were blessed with another child so quickly afterward; why we can walk and swim, but not fly (I’m serious); the list goes on.   Today, when we honor Ethan’s due date, there […]

July 30, 2012

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Yesterday

Yesterday I heard our baby’s heartbeat for the third time.   Yesterday I started to relax, and believe that we really would hold this child, warm and wiggly, in our arms come winter.   Yesterday I considered freaking out about having two babies, but decided against it.   Yesterday I peeked a little further out […]

July 20, 2012

Modern Perspectives, Motherhood, Young Married Mom

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