It’s always interesting to meet someone new. You don’t know what type of person s/he is. You don’t know what to expect from him/her. You don’t know how s/he will react to different situations. In a way, getting to know this new person is like solving a mystery. Will you like this person? Do you have the same ideals? Do you have the same beliefs? And the list just goes on and on. Ultimately, curiosity kills the cat and we must find out more about this person. Do you want to get to know this person more? Do you want . . . → Click Here To Read More: Meeting Someone New
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As most of you know, and those of you who are new and don’t, I have moving my website to a new server and creating a new site for better utilization and personalization. In doing this, I have been going through each and every post I have ever posted and reorganizing everything. I am better organizing categories to help people find a post they might be interested in. I have now included tags for every post. So far I am to the end of the year 2008. I still have all of 2009 and what has been written this year. . . . → Click Here To Read More: How quickly time flies before we realize… I am sure you all can imagine that Mari is never really far from my mind. Today is no different. Most of you know by now that I have started working out again. I set my alarm for 5am this morning (yeah, that is the correct time) so I could be to the gym by 6:30am for my very first personal training session. My personal trainer is Jennifer. Man she kicked my booty this morning. So much so that she cut our session 7 minutes early as my body was completely worn out (man am I out of shape). I . . . → Click Here To Read More: It Happens At the Strangest Time I sit here in church today just hoping I will make it through. I found Mari’s crayons she used to color with in my Bible bag this morning. The bag was on the very top shelf of our bedroom closet. Just imagine, it was as if there were dust atop the bag as it had been up on that shelf since we moved into our home in September. I went through the bag just to make sure of what was in there. There they sat; her crayons. When we used to go to church with Mari in . . . → Click Here To Read More: Mari’s Crayons  Leave a comment  My Writing - In The Moment, My Writing - Reflection  angel, child, child loss, children, Dad, daughter, death, dedication, drawings, entertaining, exciting, fun, grateful, happiness, heartwarming, home/house, incredible, innocence, interesting, joy, love, memories, missing her, mom, parenting, peace, precious, sadness, thinking Today is a day of wonder and confusion. Earlier this week Keith and I had another tragedy happen in our lives. If you have been on Facebook, and you are one of my “friends” on there, then you know what has happened. The tragedies started 8 months ago and ended on Mari’s 8 month mark of being gone (February 16). In the past 8 months, we have lost Mari, we found out a little over a month ago that Keith’s dad has prostate cancer and then at the end of last month that it is moderately aggressive . . . → Click Here To Read More: Wonder and Confusion For What Life Brings Us To me crying is never embarrassing because it is the way I truly express myself. It shows that I am sad. However, tears can make those around you so uncomfortable. I was recently given an article written by Dr. Joyce Brothers. Now she is before most our time (although I have heard of her before) but she wrote something about tears when she lost her husband. I felt that I could turn this article into something that can become applicable for a mother and/or father who has lost a child. When a father cries you know they . . . → Click Here To Read More: The Value of a Mom’s Tears (or Dad’s) Leave a comment My Writing - Reflection angel, anger, child, child loss, children, crying, Dad, daughter, death, disbelief, entertaining, exciting, freeing, grateful, grief, growth, happiness, healing, incredible, interesting, life, loneliness, loss, lost a child, love, men, mom, pain, sadness, tears, thinking, unbelievable, women, writer, writing I have a friend from my high school youth group that has a blog. I have her blog listed in my “Blogroll”. She wrote something on December 3, 2008 that I felt was really profound and I made a comment on her blog. I hope she does not mind but I not only wanted to share what she wrote but I thought those that read my posts might want to read the comment I had made. This is the link to her post: http://hvoeltner.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/thoughts/ And this is . . . → Click Here To Read More: Thoughts… Leave a comment My Writing - In Response, My Writing - Reflection angel, anger, child, child loss, children, death, friends, grateful, grief, growth, healing, heartbroken, heartwarming, home/house, hurt, incredible, interesting, loss, love, memories, missing her, mom, pain, parenting, precious, regret, sadness, unbelievable I sit here today actually feeling ok for the moment. It seems like most days are either ok or they are just sad and lonely. I was sitting here in my house yesterday and feeling utterly lonely. I was looking at Mari’s photos up on my mantel for her dedication wall. I sat here on my couch taking a break from my new website I have been trying to get up and running and was just looking. I thought about how it feels like just yesterday she was here. It feels like sometimes that she should be . . . → Click Here To Read More: Remembering Mari, how sweet it really is!! Leave a comment My Writing - In The Moment, My Writing - Reflection angel, child, child loss, children, clothing, Dad, death, dedication, disbelief, entertaining, frustration, Grandparent(s), grateful, grief, growth, happiness, healing, heartbroken, heartwarming, home/house, hurt, incredible, innocence, interesting, joy, loneliness, loss, love, memories, missing her, mom, pain, parenting, peace, precious, sadness, unbelievable It is hard to believe that as I sit here typing this that 6 months have gone by since Mariana passed away. Sometimes I just sit here and wonder how this could be. I mean a year ago at this time we had just moved into our new home. Keith had finally gotten his orders for the Oak Lawn recruiting station to become a station commander there. We were getting ready to have both Keith’s and Mari’s 8th birthday party together here in the next couple of weeks. She was in her new school and . . . → Click Here To Read More: 6 months have come and gone Leave a comment Holidays - 4th of July, Holidays - Birthdays, Holidays - Easter, Holidays - Father's Day, Holidays - Mother's Day, Holidays - Valentine's Day, My Writing - In The Moment, My Writing - Reflection angel, anger, child, child loss, children, clothing, Dad, death, dedication, disbelief, frustration, grief, growth, heartbroken, home/house, hopeless, hurt, innocence, interesting, joy, loneliness, loss, love, memories, missing her, mom, pain, parenting, precious, regret It seems like in life it does not matter what we do or what we say, we can always be reminded of what we don’t want to be reminded of at all. Keith and I went to see a movie last night. I wanted to see a comedy because I needed something to pick me up and help me to laugh. So we looked at the preview for “Marley and Me”. The previews they show for this movie are hilarious and I will tell you that most of the movie will keep you in stitches laughing. It . . . → Click Here To Read More: Went to see Movie, It’s wasn’t supposed to be sad 2 comments My Writing - In The Moment, My Writing - Reflection angel, child, child loss, children, Dad, death, disbelief, entertaining, frustration, grief, healing, heartbroken, hurt, incredible, interesting, loneliness, loss, love, memories, missing her, mom, pain, parenting, regret, sadness, unbelievable Today is Mari’s birthday, or at least it would have been. She would have turned 9 years old. I think back to 9 years ago and how I had a very difficult time delivering her. She had an extremely hard time coming into this world. It seems like she has always been a fighter. She always fought for what SHE wanted. It did not matter what anyone else wanted. Mari would have had such a good time today. All of her cousins from her daddy’s side were here today, her aunt’s and some of her uncles, and . . . → Click Here To Read More: Mari’s 9th birthday was today I think about how time can be more precious than most really think about or even care to think about. Because if we think about how precious time really is we then begin to realize that it is not infinite. We only have a limited amount of time, each and everyone of us, here on this earth. When our time is up, it is up. There is no amount of begging or pleading that can keep us here or those that we love. I can remember sitting in the hospital at the beginning of her getting sick . . . → Click Here To Read More: Time and How Precious It Really Is This is dedicated to the man I love with all of my heart. I write this for the one man in my life that has shown me what love is supposed to look like. We have our good days and we definitely have our bad ones as well. We have times of happiness and times of trial. But mostly we just have each other. The love we have for each other runs so deep, so strong it is hard to describe. To trust him is like nothing else one could experience. I trust him fully. I know . . . → Click Here To Read More: A Dedication to My Other Half What would tomorrow bring if life could be the way we want it. First, Mari would be here. She would never have gotten sick to begin with. She would have stayed perfectly healthy. She would be laughing, and playing, and simply being Mari. She would watch one of her favorite shows or one of her favorite movies and then start to flap her arms in excitement because she is just so darn excited she doesn’t know what to do with herself. She would still be here to let us know when she is hungry by saying “Eat . . . → Click Here To Read More: What if I could have what I wanted Leave a comment My Writing - In The Moment, My Writing - Reflection angel, child, child loss, children, Dad, death, dedication, disbelief, freeing, Grandparent(s), grateful, grief, growth, happiness, heartbroken, heartwarming, hopeless, hurt, incredible, innocence, interesting, joy, loss, love, memories, missing her, mom, pain, parenting, precious, regret, sadness |
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July Sucks!
You might be asking, “But why does July suck?” I mean, after all, July has so many good things about it right? Like the 4th of July and celebrating our nation’s birthday. The fireworks you can either do together with family, friends and acquaintances or to go see one of those big fireworks shows that the cities or military installations put on for us. It’s summertime. It’s warm. People are going on vacations. Everyone seems to be having fun (or at least trying to ;;) ). There are places to go and people to see. And to be . . . → Click Here To Read More: July Sucks!