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I’m Not a New Mom

It was one of those days. In a complete about-face, I packed up lunches in the middle of the morning on a Tuesday and we headed to the park, avoiding unread emails and unfinished virtual school lessons and leaving dishes

emilie June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Life No Comments Read more

1-19-18

You were no longer there today. There is this odd sense of comfort, of relief, that you were gone. That your tissue, your blood, your tiny bones and your heart have become apart of me again. That my body knew

emilie January 2, 2021December 26, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more

1-18-18

You were just a blurry orb on the ultrasound screen. Your twin was moving around like crazy but my eyes were fixated in the lower corner of the scan. No movement. No flickering heart beat. I squinted my eyes, maybe

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1-10-18

Kid to Parent Ratio 4:2 August 2018 The note written in my phone on this day. I was preparing to take an announcement photo of our exciting baby news just weeks away from the one year anniversary of my first

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

COVID-19 Quarantine: What does that mean for blended families?

Navigating a blended family is never simple, even under the best of circumstances. And my blended family situation is about as good as it gets. We have gotten into a groove maneuvering the every other day plus every other weekend

emilie March 20, 2020May 13, 2020 News No Comments Read more

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

emilie February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 Life No Comments Read more

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.

emilie October 24, 2018July 16, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more

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

emilie June 7, 2018July 16, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more

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

emilie May 2, 2018July 16, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more

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.

emilie March 31, 2018July 16, 2020 Loss and Found: A Mother's Journal No Comments Read more
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