“That date” is approaching quickly and I am feeling a growing sense of dread. Dread not just of having to wake up on April 7th and remember the events of three years earlier, but also of how people might react to how I feel that day. In my heart I know that I’m going to…
It’s All Fun And Games Until You Break Your Child’s Brain
March 21st, 2012Comments: 38
Maddie never had a security object, but Annie is attached to her blanket – her “wobble.” She imprinted on her blanket when she was six or seven months old…right when she gave up her pacifier, in fact, so I was pretty happy she had something else to soothe her that I wouldn’t eventually have to…
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- Posted in: Family and Friends
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Getting It Wrong
March 20th, 2012Comments: 16
I think a lot lately about what I put “out there.” Annie takes everything literally. If we say we’re going to do something, we have to do it. There is no tricking her anymore. If I say I’m mad at her, I have to also act mad (that means no giggling at exaggerated pouts). I…
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Daddy Daughter Weekend
March 20th, 2012Comments: 19
With Heather and her college friends up in San Francisco visiting Jackie!, Annie and I had ourselves an incredible father/daughter weekend! Saturday was St. Patty’s Day, and since I am a quarter Irish and Annie is 37.5% Irish (sheesh…that took some math) we had to do something fun. I put Annie in her Muppets sweatshirt…
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- Posted in: Newborn Identity
I Get By With A Little Help
March 19th, 2012Comments: 26
On New Year’s Day, my friend Brianne sent an email to our group of friends that expressed her hope that we could have a yearly girls’ trip. We all replied in the affirmative, with possible location ideas that would be fun for late summer. We needed babies to get older, pregnancies to get farther along, jobs to…
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- Posted in: Living With Loss
