Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the celebrations! category.
Lily turns 10
Filed in celebrations!, June 26, 2008, 11:40 amTo the girl who called herself the third twin.
My Lily.
My life is amazing with you in it.
You are unique, beautiful and special.
I love you, sweet girl.
Hope your birthday is full of sunshine, cake and everything your heart desires.
Positives.
Filed in celebrations!, June 25, 2008, 3:10 pmHi,
To anyone out there, who hasn’t run away (and I know alot of you have) thanks for sticking by us, thanks for reading still and taking the time to comment, even though you don’t know what to say. I know it’s all down in the dumps, illness rants and raves and you’re all sick of hearing […]
12 years ago today…
Filed in celebrations!, June 14, 2008, 7:07 amI look through the small circular window of the NICU.
There are babies in there and they are mine.
I grew them, harbored them for thirty five weeks, inside my body, our hearts and souls intertwined.
I can barely believe they are here.
I am a Mummy
.
The bigger of the two has soft strawberry blonde waves, still tight with […]
Mal turns 10
Filed in celebrations!, children, April 16, 2008, 9:12 amMalachy turned ten while we were in the hospital.
Malachy is globally developmentally delayed. He has autistic tendencies.
He handled his hospital party with the style and grace of a child with such issues. He totally ignored the party and played with a helicopter instead!
When he arrived on our doorstep he had two words. ‘Mum’ and ‘No’. […]
Reflections.
Filed in Loss of a baby, celebrations!, family, grief, April 2, 2008, 10:42 pmApril 2nd is always going to be a big day. It should be. It’s our son’s birthday.
After alot of worry and tears we settled on a late lunch on the beach. We had a cake and we sang happy birthday to our angel boy.
It was sweet.
He made his presence felt with the very low fly […]
April 2…
Filed in Group Writing Project, Loss of a baby, celebrations!, grief, hurting, , 12:25 amFour candles should burn brightly today in celebration.
The soft glow enveloping your small, pale face and big blue eyes. Filled with wonder and a new understanding. Of birthdays and life and all the important things, like snails and mud and which brand of Peanut Butter you like better and whether Captain Feathersword is funnier than Wags The Dog.
Four candles […]
It’s my blogoversary!
Filed in Blogging awards, blogging, celebrations!, March 18, 2008, 6:51 amWOW! I have been blogging for a whole year.My blogging experience has come such a long way from when I made those first baby steps into the blogosphere.
It got one comment.
It was from my husband.
It said; “Phwoarr! Awsome blog!”
Uh - huh. You read it right.
I’m not going to link you back to any posts.
Instead I […]
My mumz iz speshul.
Filed in celebrations!, February 29, 2008, 4:48 pmHappy Birfday to my mummy, a true leap year baby!
It’s a big one and a true one.
She is 60 and 15.
Love ya Ma!
Well, blow me down!
Filed in Health, illness, celebrations!, doctor related posts, January 9, 2008, 1:55 pmNow, don’t pass out.
He called back.
You know,
the paed!
He had done his research, talked to Ivy’s now four doctor team and had some suggestions.
No! Don’t faint!
There’s more!
We discussed Ivy’s pain at length and how it was getting worse and why we were holding off when the treatment was the same, no matter the outcome of the blood tests.
I […]
Finally. A little bit of Christmas spirit.
Filed in celebrations!, children, December 20, 2007, 6:04 pm
Last night, after Ivy and Noah were in bed, we did Christmas craft. I was pushed into it because today is the last day of school and we needed to make something for the teachers.
So, we baked biscuits and brownies and the kids made Rudolph pots to contain them. It was fun. Even David joined […]