A Special NICU Trip

December 28, 2009

Madeline was born in November, so she spent her first Thanksgiving and Christmas in the neonatal intensive care unit. The NICU is always a scary and sad place to be, but the family holidays really emphasize the loneliness that comes with an extended hospital stay. A few months ago many of you voted and wrote [...]

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Rest Stop

October 14, 2009

We’re back in California and the last day of traveling really wore me out. I only got a few hours of sleep the night before we flew back from Boston, which didn’t help my comfort level on the 6 1/2 hour flight. I’m certain my extreme tiredness had everything to do with how crappy I’ve [...]

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Hunger To Help

October 5, 2009

Last week Mike and I were invited by my friend Jessica to a super cool concert, Rock A Little, Feed A Lot. Since I am trying to make more of an effort to leave my house, we attended and I’m glad we did. It was put on by Feeding America, the Nation’s leading domestic hunger-relief [...]

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Friends Of Maddie

July 16, 2009

After we lost our Madeline, we didn’t know what to do with our lives. Everything we did, we did for her. Our lives, once focused on our wonderful daughter, were adrift. Too devastated to plan our child’s funeral, our friends did it for us. So unprepared for the financial burden of paying for it, thousands [...]

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