Starting a Scholarshop foundation in Mari’s honor.
To find out more about the foundation I plan to start, please click on the page at the top of the website titled "Scholarship". If you would like to donate to this cause, please click the donate button.
I have included a meter to show the progress we are making towards one full scholarship. To find out more details, please see the "Scholarship" page at the top of the website.
It’s interesting with kids the things they will say and are not scared or embarrassed by. They don’t have any reason to think before speaking yet because they are still so naive to what the world holds for them. It is hard lessons over time in our lives that start to teach us to become more and more reserved. Some to the point of holding everything in and not sharing with anyone unless that person comes to truly trust someone else.
I think that kids can see things as they are and are still open to all the possibilities that . . . → Click Here To Read More: The innocence of a child
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 29th, 2012%
Today kind of sucks for me. I had to go to the hospital to have a procedure done. Don’t freak out. It is nothing serious. My GI doctor wanted me to have the test (procedure) done to check to see how much acid I have that might be coming up from my stomach.
There were two test to be done. The first one took about an hour to do. I had the privilege of have a tube (she said it was a pediatric one at that) stuck through my nose that she then had to slide down into my belly. Well, . . . → Click Here To Read More: Today kind of sucked for me
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 29th, 2012%
I have become involved in something new. I am excited about this as I hope you guys will be too. I am becoming involved in a monthly blog chain to where you choose a designated date to write something about a specific topic chosen and agreed upon by the group. My first time in volved with this group and I signed up for March 16.
If you look on the left hand side of the screen, below where can contact me via email, you will see a new section called: ChristianWriters.com Blog Chain. I hope you will check out the different . . . → Click Here To Read More: Monthly Blog Chain
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 28th, 2012%
The word “savior” can have so many meanings to so many different people. You can think of someone as their savior because this person saved him or her from a difficult or awkward situation. You thank them for being there when you needed them.
When I think of savior I think of it in two different ways. One way is how many people were like our little saviors helping us through the difficult time of Mari being in the hospital or after she died.
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 27th, 2012%
A mother’s love is a very beautiful emotion and something so incredibly special. I was just thinking last night how every person in the world living and breathing today has a mother and father somewhere whether they are alive or dead. However, not everyone has a child or ever will. It is a very special bond between parent and child. It is different for a mother with her children and a father with his children. God intended it this way for a reason.
I know when it comes to our daughter that both my husband and I grieved in completely . . . → Click Here To Read More: A Mother’s Love
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 26th, 2012%
YEAH!!! I finally figured out how to get Mari’s speical video that was played at her funeral uploaded onto YouTube. I had it on Google Video for quite sometime but then that went away when Google and YouTube merged together. When I then tried to upload it into YouTube it said it was too long because it was over 15 minutes long. I didn’t know there was a specific time amount or if I could do anything about it until I went on a hunting expedition on YouTube this evening. I finally found out that all I needed to do . . . → Click Here To Read More: Mari’s Special Video
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 26th, 2012%
In my last post I wrote about how I joined this new group for writers. I have been receiving welcome’s from the different members. And in my long winded sort of way (I just can’t seem to keep my words down to a simple few sentences LOL), I responded back to what they have said. As I wrote a reply back yesterday I was thinking that it might be a good message to put on here. So I decided to put up a couple of them on here for what I said to share with all of you.
I will . . . → Click Here To Read More: Reflecting…
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 23rd, 2012%
I’m kind of excited. I just joined a new writing organization online called ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers). I was told about this organization from someone on a forum I am apart of.
I think back to last spring time frame when I first happen come upon a writing community through CreateSpace. From there I have become in involved in a few others. And through this experience I have been able to find this new group of people. They actually have local chapters all over the country you can become a part of. I have joined the Ohio Valley chapter. . . . → Click Here To Read More: Exciting Times
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 22nd, 2012%
Today kind of sucks for me. I had to go to the hospital to have a procedure done. Don’t freak out. It is nothing serious. My GI doctor wanted me to have this test (procedure) done to check to see how much acid I have that might be coming up from my stomach and causing me problems.
There were two test to be done. The first one took about an hour to perform. I had the privilege of having a tube (she said it was a pediatric one at that) stuck through my nose that she then had to slide . . . → Click Here To Read More: Things that happen
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on February 20th, 2012%
It’s interesting to me to have a child, my niece, as me a question about a conversation she over heard me having with her mom on the phone talking about how I died the day Mariana died and a new Kristena was born. Athena asked me this morning, “Auntie Kris, last night when you were talking to my mommy you talked about an “Old Kristena” and a “New Kristena,” what was the “old Kristena” like?”
I wasn’t quite sure how to answer this. How do you explain to an 8 year old what you used to be like? I told . . . → Click Here To Read More: Old and New
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on January 29th, 2012%
This weekend has been a nice relaxing weekend. I have basically sat here catching up on one of my favorite shows. The only thing that stinks is that Keith is not here. He is on a business trip this week. I miss him when he is gone. The kids haven’t been exactly happy has they have both been grounded all weekend. I think that it really has impacted them. Trevin’s was mostly for lying (again) and Athena’s was mostly for being disrespectful and rude to an adult but going up to the other’s team’s coach and telling him that his . . . → Click Here To Read More: Having Kids
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on January 28th, 2012%
It seems that I don’t write like I used to. I can honestly say that I am really starting to miss it.
The kids have been with us for almost 7 months now and we are finally into a good routine. There are some thing we are still working the kinks out with but for the most part it is really going good. So much so I have started thinking about getting back to the book. I hate the fact I had to put it on hold but I guess life has its own agenda and it did not include . . . → Click Here To Read More: Life’s moments and other things…
By Mommy's Angel In Heaven, on November 15th, 2011%
First let me start off by saying long time no talk. I am sorry I have been gone for a while. A lot has happened in my life since the last time I posted anything on Mari’s website. I look back at the date of June 23 and it seems like a lifetime ago.
On July 15 Keith and I headed to Chicago to be with Mari (so to speak) on her 3 year mark of being gone. July 16 was officially 3 years and we spent some time at her grave. It is hard to believe that 3 years . . . → Click Here To Read More: Changes in life…
I am here at work today just having a normal day. I had a book by Angie Smith called I Will Carry You that I let someone borrow. It is such a story of encouragement to me while at the same time it made me ball like a baby. I could so relate to her story. It truly touched my life. I am ever grateful to have been introduced to this story at my women’s retreat this past March.
I let a coworker borrow the book to read. For her it was just too sad and so she had laid . . . → Click Here To Read More: Life’s Moments…
I was sitting here thinking on my way home from work today how I don’t write as I used to. Here recently it has all been about either writing Mari’s book or now attempting my first hand at writing something fiction. However, I have been really thinking about Mari here recently as her three year mark approaches. It is hard to believe that it has been almost three years. It still doesn’t seem possible.
Mari will always continue to live on in my heart. I hope through her story she will also continue to live on through the hearts of . . . → Click Here To Read More: Just sitting here thinking…
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