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Comment by Kar on December 23, 2009 at 4:37pm

Love & Strength to all of you at a time of year that holds so many treasured memories of years past & so much pain since losing our children. Love to you all !!!

Comment by Katherine Ellis on December 18, 2009 at 3:09am

It's 2 am and I should be going to bed. It has been such a bad day today I just don't think I can sleep nor do I want to close my eyes. I was handling Christmas pretty well, just trying to concentrate on our two grand-daughters, 3 and 6. But it really hit me today that again this year a place will be empty. The lau...ghter less. The joy gone. I thought I was stonger but then a day like this sneaks in and I find I"m at the bottom looking up. It was a shock the way it hit me.To top this off I used the wrong debt card and now have over $150.00 in overdrafts to pay. Someone forgot to put the meat in the freezer when I got home from the store, it sat out all night out, I don't know how to tell if it's good or not. That's another $175.00. Medical bills are piling up from my husband's cancer. No money to buy the children gifts. How do you tell them Santa is broke?? I've kept it positive but tonight it just crashed in on me. I can't see a Miracle coming anytime soon. Life just doesn't seem to give us a break. I am thankful for what we have, but angery for what is not. Ashamed for feeling like this. Are we all being tested somehow? Why? When does life let up? Thank you all for letting me sound off here. I didn't know where else to turn........

Comment by Gail Richardson on December 18, 2009 at 2:11am

Karen - adding my prayers too. They can do some absolutely wonderful things these days so don't give up hope. Please wish him well Karen and let us know how it goes. Hugs x

Comment by Laura Villarreal on December 17, 2009 at 5:30pm

Oh Karen, I am so sorry! I will say special prayers for a speedy recovery. I know a little about PAs and I don't think this will keep him from continuing on his path to being a PA.
Keep us posted.
Take care.

Comment by Kar on December 17, 2009 at 5:01pm

Damn Damn Damn - ! ! ! The only son I have left all but cut some fingers off last night. Time will tell if they were saved & if he has use of them. He is in college to be a physican assistant & hoped to work with orthopedic surgery. He may have lost that tonight too. It was his right hand & yes he is right handed. AHHHHHH !!!!!! A hand surgeon/plastic surgeon did surgey in the ER, saw blade destroyed a knuckle in the middle & pointer finger as well as nerves & tendons. No pins because the bones were splintered. they tried to sew them together.
time will tell...

Comment by Gail Richardson on December 17, 2009 at 2:47pm

I know how you feel Karen - I truly hate this time of year too. And it seems to go on forever doesn't it? I'm doing the very least I can get away with again - no decorations yet, I have to put up a tree for my foster daughter's sake but will leave it till the very last minute. I ordered all my gifts on-line to avoid the Christmas shopping experience that I can well do without! Just hang in there hun, it'll soon be over. And we're all here for one another when it all gets too much. Hugs xxxxx

Comment by Kar on December 15, 2009 at 5:15pm

Will be a relief when the holidays are over !!! All the lights, carols, etc.... make me sort of angry !!! Then people say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas , & all the )O&(&(&(*. Kill me now - pleaseeeeeeeeee.

Comment by Katherine Ellis on December 8, 2009 at 5:25pm

"That" time of year is upon us. The big holiday. It's so hard to put up the tree, go shopping, bake the cookies and be happy. When what we really want is just to crawl in bed and hide until it's over. I pray for all of us that we find the strenght to get though it and find a moment of peace. God Bless you.

Comment by Katherine Ellis on December 7, 2009 at 10:23pm

Today the Christmas tree is up. Some years are easier than others. This year I just feel empty. I don't think we would have placed one in our home had it not been for our grand-daughters living with us. How they fill our hearts and bring smiles to our faces. I pray all of you have someone in your lives that help yo...u do that. The holidays seem to be the worst. All those holiday shoppers out there smiling, shopping with their children when ours aren't with us. I just want to go up to them and tell them how lucky they are. Each night we will light our angel candle next the picture of our daughter, that is the closes we can get to her. I pray for each and every one of us, that we have the strength to indure the rest of this year. That we all have a better New Year. God Bless Everyone. (my words I just posted the same thing on different sites

Comment by Gail Richardson on December 6, 2009 at 3:54am

God’s Greatest Work of Art

If a picture is worth a thousand words
And nothing worthwhile is ever lost
Then what is the value of memories
For those who paid the highest cost?

When a parent loses a child
Words become a useless tool
There is nothing to be said to undo the hurt
And feeble attempts are only cruel

A hug heart to heart in warm embrace
Surpasses any useless phrase
Shared tears and shared memories
More healing than funeral sprays

A photograph is a moment in time
And sometimes it can capture our soul
A place we can find solace in memories
To fill an empty hole

The triggered memories are priceless
For in a flood of tears we cannot see
And we must travel inward
to seek one’s own empathy

To empathize with ourselves
For the heart can heal all things
We all have what it takes…
A song bird is meant to sing

Our hearts are the greatest gift
That lies within our grasp
To endure the clinging agony
And find some peace at last

We must make new memories
That can only glorify the old
We can use our heart to heal ourselves
Our story must be told

Our grief should not be a secret
Death is not a curse
Living life without Joy
Is an existence so much worse

Brighten up someone else’s day
It will illuminate you own
And plant the seeds of destiny
That has a purpose and should be sown

Yes a picture is worth a thousand words
So share those pictures from your heart
Filibuster your child’s life to one and all
They are God’s greatest work of art.
- MC/9/09

Mitch Carmody

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