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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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