Celebrate With Me As I sit here writing this on the eve of my 47th birthday, I am filled with mixed emotions … I feel relief, sadness, gratitude and joy. Mom died when she was 46 years old, and for as long as I can remember, I have been afraid that I wouldn’t make […]
What I Would Say to the 14-Year-Old Me Today I received a comment to a post on the Mom Loss Survivors Facebook page where someone shared that their 17-year-old granddaughter had lost their Mom and was really hurting. Not only was it painful for me to hear that she was hurting but it also […]
A New Year Done a New Way (Part 2) I have to lose 25 pounds this year. I have to find a better balance and be more organized with my time. I have to save more money. Wow, those sound so harsh and so very final, don’t they??? Unfortunately … that’s what […]
When Do You Celebrate You? With all the talk and to-do lists around celebrations and gifts this holiday season … it really got me thinking. Sooooo … when do you celebrate YOU? Or do you? If you are anything like me, you probably don’t even notice all that you are … never mind celebrate […]
Holiday Hug Challenge Ok, so truth be told, I came home from work tonight and looked at the box of holiday cards on my dining table and thought … ugh!! It’s not that I don’t like sending cards or reconnecting with people I haven’t spoken to or seen in a while … it’s that […]
A New Year Done a New Way While I love love love the holidays, I have always dreaded the New Year. My New Year always involved another set of resolutions … which for me meant one thing … losing weight at any cost. As the New Year approached, I would do all I […]
Thanksgiving Memories of Mom Growing up, I always loved Thanksgiving. I am not sure if it was because of the traditions we had as a family or if I liked it because there were no gifts or because it was always a quiet and reflective kind of day at our house. I just liked […]
How Do YOU Take Care of YOU? Ok, let’s get serious for a few minutes …. When is the last time you took care of YOU? When is the last time you showed yourself some self-compassion? If you are anything like me, you oftentimes put everyone else first and you last … or not […]
The Gift of Adoption I am the receiver of the gift of adoption. My adoption story has many chapters. I will start in the beginning with Chapter One. The time was the late 1960’s. It almost seems like a different world compared to now. My parents had tried to have a child naturally for […]
The Walls Come Down After last week’s blog post where I asked myself the question “Who will you be when you become yourself?”, I received a note from an old high school friend. She and I are Facebook friends but hadn’t REALLY connected since we graduated. In the note, she vulnerably shared her thoughts […]