Today marks five years since Hannah drew her last earthly breath and stepped into the arms of Jesus. I have to be honest and say that...

While We're Waiting offers three types of retreats for bereaved parents ... a weekend-long retreat for singles/couples, one day mini-ret...

The blog has been quiet for awhile, hasn't it?  To be perfectly honest, I've just been kind of "dry" lately.  I'm not...

I've never really been much of a New Year's resolution person.  No particular reason ... I'm just not. But for 2014, I'm t...

I remember how I felt that first New Year's Days after Hannah went to Heaven. To be perfectly honest ... it was awful. While part of...

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...