happy halloween

iron man...

and the great pumpkin...

hope you had a happy halloween!!

wordless wednesday

post-it note tuesday

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{this moment}

{this moment} a friday ritual. a single photo. no words. capturing a moment from the week. a simple, special, extraordinary moment. a moment i want to pause, savor and remember. see soulmama to play along.

post-it note tuesday

this is my first time doing post-it note tuesday. i saw it on another blog i follow and thought it was really fun!

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25 & 76

today i am 25 weeks pregnant.

today my poppop would have been 76 years old.

while i'm happy about the first number, i'm saddened by the second and the fact that it's been 10 years (oct of 2000) since we were able to celebrate poppop's birthday with him.

happy birthday poppop. we miss you every day and hope we are making you proud.

10.15.10

once again, it's so sad that there is even a day for this, but today marks pregnancy and infant loss rememberance day. just as i did last year to honor our little angel whom we learned earned his/her wings 1 year 4 months, 3 weeks and 3 days ago today, and would be celebrating their 1st birthday in just a few short months, i will light a candle tonight at 7 p.m. to participate in the wave of light. although this is just one day in the pregnancy and infant loss awareness month, not a day goes by that we don't think about our little one. who's nose they may have had. would they have looked like tony?

while i am truly, truly blessed to be sitting here 25 weeks pregnant with tony and baby d's little brother vinnie, it still pangs at my heart that baby d isn't here with us and that we must participate in this month/day not as a support system for others, but because we have been affected on a much more personal level.

if you have time tonight, please consider participating in the wave of light. to honor the memories of those babies you may know that have gone to heaven too soon, or in honor of those you may not know. i will once again be lighting 3 candles tonight...one for our sweet angel, one for our little nephew oliver and one for all baby's lost.

here is a link to last year's october 15 post and candle lighting.

also, as posted before...my sister is collecting blankets in conjunction with the sweet pea project during october, pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. here is my post from a few weeks ago about that. if you have blankets to donate, please contact me at 610.587.1096 or my sister who's contact information is on the flyer.

our new addition

no not that new addition. hopefully he'll stay put cooking away for a few more months.

the new addition of our puppy, sookie, to the family.

call us crazy. no really, go ahead. call us crazy. we think we are ourselves, but the timing was right when we saw this precious little thing.

we decided with abby reaching the age of 11 very soon (and some of us missing molly awfully bad), and knowing what a big help it is to have an older dog around to train a pup and show them the ropes, it was now or never. we decided to bite the bullet and get one before the baby arrived. we've had her since saturday and she's been amazing. sleeping through the nights, no accidents and generally being a good girl. she's really put a little spunk back into abby too.

she's a mix of 1/2 bassett hound (her mama was a non-rock eating bassett) and 1/2 jack russell (her daddy wasn't one of those off the wall, bouncy [read: crazy] jack's).

she has stolen our hearts.

even the heart of her tough-guy daddy.