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Hi, I am going to visit family and will be back on Nov. 11th. Please hold off on emails til I get back. I will be thinking of all of you and praying for you and all the people who will join our group while I'm gone. Huuuggggs, JoAnne

Yes, it's me...your long lost manager reporting for duty. First let me welcome all our new members to our group. I will try over the next few weeks to individually welcome you and get to know you and your angels. Secondly I want to express my deepest sympathy to all on the lose of your child. We have all been down the same path you are treading now..it isn't an easy road to travel but with friends beside you, it makes it a little easier. Feel free to share your angel with us as well as your problems dealing with their lose. Thirdly I want to thank each and everyone of you that kept the group going in my absence. You all have done a terrific job!! I really appreciate you stepping up and doing my job for me...God will reward you richly. It's such a comfort to know that we have friends that seem closer than family when it's needed.

Now for updates on me..got most of the things done that needed repaired or replaced before putting the house on the market...just have a floor to put down in the family room yet & a deck to stain before bad weather sets it...and it is already starting here in Ohio. Next few days will be sunny & warmer, so I'm going to try & get that done quickly.
Football season is finally over, even though it was hectic I enjoyed spending the time with my angels boys at practices and games. Autry (7th grade) went undefeated and got their tropy. Kobe (6th grade) made it to the playoffs but lost. They may not have won the tropy but they won in attitude, learning experience and sportsmanship...and to me that is worth far more than a tropy. We grandmas had to see them lose but are still very proud of them. I know that their mommy was watching them from Heaven and VERY proud. Autry is signed up for wrestling this year. This is a big step for him...he hasn't wrestled since his mommy died in 2004. I know that she will be chomping at the bit when he wrestles...she & her brother John were his wrestling coaches before her death.

Until I get back on track again, I'm going to take this opportunity to collectively wish each of our members and/or their angels that are having a birthday/angel date for the month of November. Even though I have been away from here, I still have held you precious people up in prayer. God knew the names and that is all that mattered.

Before I forget...thank you all for the prayers for my hubby Marty during his "heart" problems this summer. We were at the Cardiologist several weeks ago and things are working great. Blood tests were done and the stents are doing what they are supposed to do and we don't have to go back until April, unless something happens. We have a great God, don't we? He also sends us angels that we call friends.

Okay, I've bent your ears long enough now. Share your angels with us...after all they are sharing all of us together in Heaven.
Hugs,
Lonna...Leanna's mom

If you wish to include your beloved in the Christmas video, you can embed the picture in a message and send to me or upload here on the site. Thanks to all.

Well it has been 4 months since my Brianna passed, how do you make it through the holidays. It is hard making it through a regular day,let alone Christmas.

Someone sent me this poem 17 years ago when I lost my first daughter. Perhaps you have heard it before. For some reason it helped.

Death is nothing at all..I have only slipped away into the next room..I am I and you are you..whatever we were to each other that we are still. Call me by my old familiar name, speak to me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone; wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it was. Let it be spoken without effort, without the ghost of a shadow on it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was; there is absolutely unbroken continuity. What is death but a negligible accident? I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well.

I have been watching my videos of Rachel.......trying to edit and make copies for her Dad, but end up just watching. Watching and crying, smiling, longing, wishing, and crying some more. The thought of getting out Christmas boxes and hanging her stocking just breaks my heart. I can't seem to stop crying. It is harder to hold it in at work...........I am falling apart at the 'thought' of going through this season. How am I going to make it through the actual 'doing'? I want to include her. I need to include her. We all buy or make our own ornament for the tree each year - put our name and date on it. I thought maybe we could all pick one together for Rachel each year.

I found some notes she wrote when she was very young - one in particular really touched me......she drew a picture and wrote "have a happy christmas everyone! I love you all!" She loved Christmas. I think I'm going to frame that note and hang it by the tree. I am so glad I saved so many things......I find them very comforting. I may not appear 'comforted' if someone were to see me with these things - heartbroken and comforted at the same time I guess. I am struggling. I can't just fall apart, although that would be much easier on me than keeping it 'together'. My daughters and granddaughter depend on me to be strong. I am doing the best I can and I know that is enough..........it has to be.

How do you get through the holidays? Whichever holiday your family celebrates - how do you include your lost child?

Welcome to our group, I am so sorry about the loss of your daughter, I lost mine in July of this year, it has been a very rough way to go, this group has got me through alot. You are in the right place.

someone asks the question

"How many children do you have?"

Marianne K reminded me of how I get sort of get confusedand search to answer correctly.
Does this happen to you?
Is there a right way to answer?

We are happy that you have found us and do extend our hearts in sympathy and arms to you in support. Introduce your beloved child to us, let us get to know him and so will all the other children. Feel free to write anything you want, as often as you feel like it when the moment has overtaken whether it be with joy at the beautiful memories your child have left you or those times that you just need to write or to talk. We have a chat box so feel free to invite a member to chat.