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November 16th, 2009 -- Posted in angels, family, pain / disability |
Every year, we take a moment to acknowledge our angel babies that we lost through miscarriage.
This year we had another family over for supper so we had their little girl help light with lighting the candles along with my two. 3 candles for 3 angels so it worked out. Also, her mom and I were pregnant at the same time and when she was born (in October 2002) it was around the time my 1st angel would’ve been born.
Which partly explains why we always take the time to remember our miscarried babies on the same day each year – October 25th. Our first lost baby was due on October 5th and for my 3rd and 4th pregnancies, I started to miscarry them on October 25th (one year apart).
Another annual tradition linked with our candle-lighting is a donation made to March of Dimes. When we were losing our 2nd baby, I found out that they offered a free grief package with helpful info and I ordered one to be mailed. It was so helpful during those few weeks following the loss of our second baby.
This year, the March of Dimes has started a campaign where little bracelets can be created in honour of lost angel babies. So for our regular donation I created a bracelet for this second baby, willow. Maybe next year, I can create another bracelet for our third baby, sienna.
If you’re a regular charity-giver, please consider the March of Dimes as a possible source of your givings. And if you’d like to donate in willow’s name, here is her bracelet:
willow’s band
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March 20th, 2009 -- Posted in angels, blinkies & other cuteness, work/career |
Well, I’m finally launching the website that I started last July… with much less fanfare than planned. See, I’d been trying with my hubby to work on creating new tickers, but the technical details turned out to be over our heads.
So I’m launching the site instead as just a spot for message boards and non-blinkie graphic art. And moving a couple of the groups I host (for moms of angels) to that board as well to help get it started.
If you are or know any moms who are dreaming about working from home, about a new house, about a new baby, about finding love, or about a dream wedding, please send them this way! 
January 26th, 2009 -- Posted in angels, blinkies & other cuteness, people suck, work/career |
so, normally when I see someone “wearing” one of my blinkies or something like that, I think “cool!” ’cause it’s neat to see how things you make can wind their way around the web.
but sometimes, it’s more like “hey! do people not know that stealing someone’s bandwidth without permission is not so nice?” 
even if they don’t have personal experience hosting websites (and being aware that some hosts charge you $$$ for the bandwidth you use above and beyond your account’s limits!), there are enough sites out there that caution against direct-linking.
Issue #1: Some of my breastfeeding blinkies that were previously on YM were being hot-linked a bunch of places, especially here where a whole batch were added to a forum thread. And even though BlinkieMommies now has those blinkies available for direct linking, YM never did and I don’t want to share any of YM’s bandwidth. So my smart hubby updated the .gif files to show a “this blinkie has been moved to BlinkieMommies.com” blinkie when someone is trying to direct-link there.
Issue #2: So even though it’s been 7 years since I lost angel and got a tattoo of a heart and angel wings, it’s still something moms are going through and tattoos are still a popular way to remember and honour the lives of our little angel babies. And I appreciate that moms are looking for ideas. That being said, I’d rather not see a picture of my hip “out there” on the web. So I’ve added a copyright message to the pics and hopefully next time someone would like to pass along that idea, they will link to me instead.
I don’t want to be overly controlling or anything (and stamping a © on everything in sight) but it just stings a little to work hard on something, have an idea, do something creative, make some art, etc. and have that taken away when you put it out there.
It’s like that cliché situation at the office when your co-worker steals your idea and takes credit when the boss says “that looks nice!”.
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