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8-20-17

The breeze sitting on my parents back porch seems like the best breeze that there ever was. One like I’ve never experienced. No breeze as beautiful, quiet and comforting. Not the breeze alongside the ocean, not on the top of

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

A Robert Frost poem and my favorite A New Found Glory album. All those years go when I discovered both as a high schooler inĀ 2000 (I’m aging myself), I didn’t quite get it. But the other day I was driving

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8-2-17

A butterfly dancing at my window as if she is trying to find a way in. Maybe if she could come in and sit on my finger tips, she could elevate me from earthly matters – to where you are.

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7-7-17

The only thing you have to do is breathe. Tomorrow is a full moon. A time to let go of all that is not allowing you to live in your most illuminous light. Tomorrow I will let go of the

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5-30-17

It just doesn’t get easier. I had my baby and my baby is gone. I can’t get my baby back. I was so stressed that morning it happened. Rushing out the door to make Pilates with a disagreeable 2-year-old, snapping

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2-15-17

All I keep thinking is that I want my baby back. I walked out of the hospital that day without my baby and a huge piece of me was left behind as well.

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2-12-17

I had already bought you a book to write you letters. One at each of your birthdays. I put the pieces of the crib in our spare bedroom and was planning on using the gorgeous yellow crib sheets I never

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2-11-17

The Day of My Miscarriage Somehow the day coming to a close makes this all feel worse. Like today was a nightmare but tomorrow I have to wake up in the reality that I lost my baby, that I am

emilie October 31, 2017July 16, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more

A Valentine’s Story

A Valentine’s Story

I’ve been holding back on posting about this until now. Like many women who go through similar experiences, it’s nearly impossible to get over the feelings of shame, inadequacy, embarrassment and pure grief to feel comfortable opening up. Olympic gymnast

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Round Peg in a Sqaure Hole

I was watching Baby L play with one of those toys where you match the colored shape with the correct cut-out in a bucket. She took the triangle and relentlessly attempted to get in into the square hole. She finally

emilie July 15, 2016November 7, 2017 Life, News No Comments Read more
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