We are big YouTube fans in our house, especially since they created the YouTube Kids app – it’s all kid-friendly content that’s educational and fun (and SAFE, which is key with kids and YouTube!). YouTube asked us to put together a playlist of our favorite kid-friendly Halloween songs, and I thought it would be fun to…
Mr. Fearless
October 29th, 2015Comments: 15
Annabel is my cautious child. She doesn’t like anything too loud, or too high, or too unknown. James is the opposite: he loves to climb, he loves to jump, he loves new things. Luckily, James isn’t swayed by Annabel’s reluctance, and Annabel isn’t threatened by James’ fearlessness – she told me once, “He can do…
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To The Mother Of A Rainbow Baby
October 27th, 2015Comments: 34
I am connected with many in the baby/child loss community, and in the last few months I’ve noticed a huge uptick in rainbow baby announcements. For those who don’t know, a rainbow baby is a child who is born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant/child loss – the rainbow after the storm. Annabel and James are both rainbow babies,…
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- Posted in: Living With Loss
Something’s Fishy
October 26th, 2015Comments: 56
At Annabel’s school carnival this last Friday, every classroom was responsible for putting together a game/activity booth, complete with prizes. Our booth was mini golf, and our prizes were a bunch of Halloween plastic toys from Oriental Trading company. Most of the other booths followed suit, while some of the activities were the prize, like…
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Surfing Sunday 10.25
October 25th, 2015Comments: 29
Annabel had her school carnival on Friday. Every class puts together a game booth and a basket for a raffle. The room mom and I have been planning this since the second week of school, but luckily the room mom has older kids so this wasn’t her first rodeo. We decided to put something together that we…
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