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Miss Olivia
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by admin.
by: Kelly Key with excerpts from their family blog December 29, 2009 “Livi’s seizures have been worse over the past few days with new types showing up as well as all seizures being more intense and perhaps more often. We have hardly seen her awake not seizing in the past two days–perhaps an hour or two all [...]
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Including Chloe
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by admin.
On our daughter’s first day of school, my husband and I were nervous. We would be leaving our child with strangers for seven hours. She would have to adapt to a new routine, a new environment, and a school full of brand new peers. Of course, these are things that every parent [...]
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Meet Gaines
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by admin.
hen I went into labor with my firstborn son I was so ready to meet him, to hold him in my arms. I had counted down the days for months. I knew he was going to be perfect, just the way he was in all of the dreams I had been having. I knew he [...]
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A Week in the Life
Posted on 31. Aug, 2010 by admin.
Monday: My son came home from school with the knees cut out of his jeans. His explanation: “All the other kids had holes in their pants so I wanted holes in mine.” On the way home from the store my son was upset that he didn’t get to buy a toy, so he tried [...]
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Roman’s Story
Posted on 31. Jul, 2010 by admin.
03.26.09 will forever be etched in my memory. It was on that afternoon I came home from work and found my pregnant wife, Hilda, complaining of her stomach hurting. What had been a perfect pregnancy for five and a half months was about to change. We spent our first two hours in the emergency [...]
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Sparker’s Smile
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by admin.
At times it still feels like this is not really happening. I never thought I would be sharing a story about my child going through such a challenge, but here I am typing away. With each letter I write, I am cementing the reality that this is our new life. How to begin this [...]
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Mission to Maxim
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by admin.
Raising a Ransom In the summer of 2006, Tina Kacirek went to Ukraine on a mission to care for orphans with special needs, to pray over them and to gain a greater understanding of why the care of these children is so lacking. Tina’s role on this particular trip was to help with the children who [...]
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Meet Sam
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by admin.
“We are back in Little Rock for Sam’s chemo cycle #6. Sam is in great spirits and looks fantastic. His audiology appointment confirmed what we have noticed, that the hearing loss continues… Although he is walking much better, he still has some foot drop and no patellar reflex, so no vincristine this cycle….” [...]
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One Backpack.. One Goal… 11 Countries… One Mission
Posted on 30. Jun, 2010 by admin.
Everyone wants to find their place in the world; yet, there are few who actually take the giant leap to seek it out. One local twenty-something has decided to put life as she has known it on hold to do something amazing. Her mission: to travel around the world in an effort to put [...]
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Dying to Live
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by admin.
I woke up to see my husband, Jason, talking to a nurse — I knew then that I was in a hospital. I was not scared; I was not anxious. I was alive and very much at peace. I learned in that moment that God was with me, and he was definitely in [...]
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Summer of 1985
Posted on 01. Jun, 2010 by admin.
“Have you told Jason yet,” my Mom asked. It was the Summer of 2003. I told her I hadn’t. I decided that today would be the day. My world changed during the summer of 1985. I was a normal five-year-old girl who was looking forward to starting Kindergarten and learning to ride my bike. That all [...]
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She will always be a part of me….
Posted on 01. May, 2010 by admin.
As the classic rhyme foretells — first came love, then came marriage, and then, I assumed, would come a baby carriage. But it took us two years of trying to get pregnant before I finally saw those two famous pink lines. Overjoyed that the wait was over, I bought a crib [...]
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A Heart for my Mother
Posted on 01. May, 2010 by admin.
Even before my Mom became sick, she was the kind of person that only knew the value of hard work. She had to work hard everyday and was more than willing to do what was needed to get the job done right the first time. She has also always been the kind of woman who [...]
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Remembering Averie
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by admin.
“Life is unpredictable at best, but it is when the unpredictable turns tragic that you are forced to step back and appreciate each and every special moment you are given.” My pregnancy with my first child started out very normal. Doctor’s visits were left with a smile, and there was never cause for concern. We were [...]
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Generations: The Overstreet Family
Posted on 31. Mar, 2010 by admin.
While eating lunch for the first time with my future husband and his parents, a picture caught my attention. The image was of a man sitting at a table praying before eating his meal. That same painting graced the wall of my grandparents’ dining room. Growing up, we ate lunch every Sunday [...]
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Grateful for God’s Tiniest Blessings – a Duggar Family Update
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by admin.
“Every pregnancy, a woman gets close to death delivering a baby,” Jim says. Something in his voice confirms that this time his fear was different. For several hours he did not know if his wife would live or die. When it comes to caring for a baby, there’s no teacher like experience. With 18 children, [...]
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An Adoption Story: 3 Babies from the Ukraine
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by admin.
My oldest son likes to say our family is a lot like the family on TLC’s “Little People, Big World.” We do everything everyone else does, we just do it a little bit differently. This statement could not be more true. What makes our family different? Well, for one thing, all of [...]
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Surviving the loss of Cameron
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by admin.
There are rare events in life that have such an impact that they seem to distinguish who we are. We may even think of our lives in terms of the “before and after” of such events. For most of us, these “life changers” include getting married, moving to a new town, or perhaps [...]
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Living with Cystic Fibrosis
Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by admin.
“We want to do a sweat test to rule out cystic fibrosis. I think the chances of him having it are slim to none but we still need to rule it out.” — That was the first time I heard that there was a chance that my son had a disease. My son Reid [...]
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Jack and Gunner: Two stories of how one disease changed two family’s lives forever…
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Jack’s Story Keeping His Memory Alive The 2006 holiday season was off to a great start as my husband Matt and I found out that we were expecting a baby. At our twelve-week checkup, Dr. Duke (Park Hill Clinic for Women) was unable to find a heartbeat with the Doppler so he decided to perform [...]
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