Christmas 2008 was a really difficult Christmas for us.  Three months prior, our daughter Hannah's cancer had returned with a vengeance,...

When I was a little girl, Christmas was my absolute favorite holiday.  We would always travel from our home in northern Wisconsin to visit ...

Birthdays sure are different than they used to be. Even just a few years back, I could go through an entire birthday without anyone even k...

One part of the While We're Waiting ministry is a Facebook page which is dedicated to discussions about issues that bereaved parents dea...

So, we've survived Black Friday (no, I didn't take part in the madness!), Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday (which I enthu...

As a school-based speech pathologist, I spend a lot of time walking students to and from my classroom.  At regular intervals throughout th...

Whoops!  It's the 11th, isn't it?  Oh well, yesterday I was too busy with my little "chick" who was home for the weekend t...

Wow.  It happened again.  We had an absolutely wonderful weekend with some amazing parents ... all of whom have children in Heaven.  These f...

Joy can be elusive, can't it? Anyone who knows me well (or who has read this blog for awhile) knows that our family has kind of adopte...

Five? How is it possible that Hannah has spent five birthdays in Heaven now?  It seems like just yesterday that we celebrated her 17th bir...

"...they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.  And when they had brought them to the magistra...

Hannah's birthday is coming up in a couple of weeks, which always has a tendency to put me in a bit of a melancholy mood.  She would be ...

Awesome things happen when a group of bereaved, but believing, Dads spend a weekend together.  These guys gathered at an old farmhouse in ru...

Hmmmm ... It's been awhile since I've posted, hasn't it?  We've been busy, busy, busy with While We're Waiting events.  ...

A couple weeks ago, we met three other couples for dinner on a Saturday evening.  We knew we wanted to have the opportunity to really visit,...

Now that we are "empty nesters", and no longer running from high school sporting event to high school sporting event, we have pick...

This past Saturday, we had the great joy of hosting another While We're Waiting Mini-Retreat for Moms.  Once again, the day was a huge b...