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Because I Owe It To Him

December 16, 2018 by not your average mom 4 Comments

Every year, December 16th starts off pretty much the same way. I wake up like I do on every other day. And then a few seconds or a few minutes after I’m up, I remember. I remember exactly where I was, who I was with, and what I heard on that day in 1985 when my […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Uncategorized Tagged With: carpe diem, death, leukemia, seize the day

Crossroads, Chapter 2

July 8, 2017 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

On July 2, 2017, I made the decision to stop drinking. I wanted to share the story of how I came to this decision. In order to do that, I needed to go back to the beginning. If you missed those posts, you can catch up here: Chapter 1         Chapter 2 My brother […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bone marrow transplants, brother, Connecticut, cousin, driveway, fifteen, fundraiser, Jeep, kiss, leukemia, parents, porch, seattle, smoke, t hirteen, thirteen, washington

It’s Time To Mourn

December 2, 2016 by not your average mom 5 Comments

Sometimes you need a few whacks in the head before something really starts to sink in. You know how  Facebook’s “on this day” reminds you of all the  things you commented on and shared every year before on that date? Two years ago exactly, I wrote a post about how I was struggling — “…My head is […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: birthday, brother, crying, death, depression, leukemia, mourn

This is a good story.

August 23, 2016 by not your average mom 6 Comments

I have a story to tell you. It’s kind of two parts that eventually come together. Here is the first part… I have recently reconnected with an old friend from high school. We weren’t particularly close friends back then. He’s two years younger than me, and actually better friends with my brother who was in his […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: facebook, high school, leukemia, renick, snapshot

Well, that’s one way of looking at it.

March 12, 2014 by not your average mom 2 Comments

Yesterday Number 4 came home with the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. I guess her teacher gave it to her to read. She was super excited to read it. I’m not sure why, really… It’s pretty sad, but I think she felt like it was more of a grown up book than she […]

Filed Under: Your Daily Dose Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, atom bomb, books about death, Hiroshima, leukemia, Number 4, Old Yeller, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes

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