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Flying with a 7-Month-Old: How I Did It Alone

June 7, 2019
Motherhood Tips + Advice

3 Important Things About Motherhood I Learned in the Newborn Phase

June 2, 2019
On Grief & Grieving, Parenting After Loss, Rainbow Parenting

Rainbow Momming on International Bereaved Mother’s Day

May 5, 2019
Rainbow Parenting

4 Things I’ve Learned About Rainbow Momming

May 4, 2019
Letters to Jonah, Life After Loss, On Grief & Grieving, Parenting After Loss

The Future of Letters to Jonah

May 4, 2019
Pin It New Year + Jonah’s Month
On Grief & Grieving

New Year + Jonah’s Month

January 1, 2018

2018 is a bright one so far. We welcomed the new year in with friends last night, so I didn’t wake up until just past 9 AM. I walked out of the bedroom to find a brilliant sun shining in a crystal blue sky. It’s one of...

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The Christmas Tablecloth

November 29, 2017

The Doornink family gathers every (close to) Christmas Eve for our celebration of love and family, and sometimes a little Jesus. We sit around the dining table and enjoy a meal of turkey, swedish sausage, mashed potatoes, corn...

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Random Writing Prompt: My Favorite Recipe

November 22, 2017

To learn to be a better writer, I have a book of writing prompts. I asked Colin to open it and give me a random one tonight, and he opened the page to “my favorite recipe”. So, here’s what came out of my soul this...

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Life After Loss, On Grief & Grieving

This is my secret to happiness in grief.

November 20, 2017

It’s no secret that my life has been pretty full of grief lately. I’ve lost my mom, my health, and my first child within the last three years. Despite all of that, I find joy in life. I get up and go to work, I hang out...

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On Grief & Grieving

Ode to Bubble Baths

November 12, 2017

Yikes, it’s been so long since I’ve written regularly! I’m a busy bee. I’m taking a writing class for the next couple of weeks about structuring the personal narrative, and our first assignment was to write an...

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Life After Loss

How Journaling is Bringing My Creativity Back

October 24, 2017

It’s been hard for me lately to write. *Gasp* I know, it’s hard to believe because of how much I was writing in my early months of grief! I just had so much to say at that time – so many feelings to talk about and get...

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On Grief & Grieving

Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

October 15, 2017

October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and October 15h is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day. If you’re reading this and you’re not a loss parent, I want you to know that I am so glad to have you in...

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Life After Loss

Hello, Structure

September 12, 2017

It’s 9:30 am on my last Tuesday off of work. I’m sitting here on my couch, drinking coffee, my puppy spread out next to me, enjoying this last unstructured Tuesday morning. I’ve been working 30 hour weeks with Tuesdays...

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On Grief & Grieving

Published on Still Standing: How Active Grieving Saved Me from More Pain

September 6, 2017

There’s no question that grief is hard. It takes everything you have just to be a human when you’re deep in grief. It’s physical, it’s mental, and it’s tough. The day that I was lying in my hospital bed waiting for my...

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Life After Loss

How to Organize Your Life with Trello

September 3, 2017

Say what?! A post not about grief?! Don’t worry, it still relates 😉 A large hurdle for me in grief has been reliability – getting places on time, submitting blog posts and such on time, and just being organized in...

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