A Bare Tree and an Aching Heart
The glasswing ,well and the monarch, are my mascots. Spirit animals? Whatever, their existence helps me to survive my own.
A Community of Never Enough Mothers?
Women who are all mothers, not in your traditional sense of the word of 2.5 children in the family picture, but mothers still.
The Bounce House
A germ infested warehouse filled with bigger-than-life rainbow colored bounce houses, and we have the place to ourselves! Stomach-dropping fun for every child, a place of refuge for their tired parents, and a place of nightmares for most infertile
Cash Made Dreams: When Making a Baby is More About Filling Pockets Than Filling Homes
You know how much I believe in the healthy messages in and after the infertility journey; my messages like loss is loss, enoughs and everything, more than our numbers and the complicated gray. My advocacy work continues to struggle to get much footing, it seems
The Grief of What Could Have Been – Pregnancy and Infant Loss
Ever Upward Footprints Blog Tour: National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month 2016
To the Invisible Mom Crying in Church
It is that time of year that every week on our way to church we will pass the biggest and most popular pumpkin patch in St. Louis. I will look to my right every single week for about six weeks
Creating the Rainbow
A quick post of the latest happenings in this life of ever upward; the life of creating my rainbow
Footprints Blog Tour: Share Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness
Join me and 14 other bloggers from around the country as we lead up to October 15th, 2016 with our Footprints Blog Tour. In 1988, President Ronald Reagan declared October as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
A Blessing Made Manifest
It took me about a year to dig my way out of the darkness that was left after our failed infertility journey. A year of working with my therapist, building and wrestling with my faith, truly taking care of myself
