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Happy 8th Birthday Hazel

by tarastar on July 24, 2010

I began trying to get pregnant shortly after getting married in 1999.  I assumed it would be easy; it was not. After two years of failed fertility treatments, my then husband and I decided on one last IVF cycle.  This time we would go to St. Barnabas in New Jersey, home to a well known [...]

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Well it’s Wednesday on a week I don’t have the kids; consistently the worst day of the week for me.  On the weekend I am fine.  Monday I am full of hope about all the things I will get done while the kids are with their dad.  Tuesdays I do all the laundry and cook [...]

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When Dad Goes to Space

by tarastar on June 7, 2010

I’ve been thinking a lot about divorce lately, because I was sad last week and the sadness tends to bring everything up.  Specifically, I’ve been wondering about my children and how they make sense of being one of the few kids at school in a divorced home.  Clyde and Ivy were nine months old when [...]

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