Author Archives: Amanda

Will you join the Army of Women?

  By Amanda | December 22, 2011 - 2:32 pm | ,
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I’ve told you about my philosophy about funding for breast cancer research. And you know that I am participating in the Susan G. Komen 3 Day next October in honor of my mom.  But there is another organization that is leading a breast cancer research surge.  The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation’s Love/Avon Army of Women.  The Army of Women’s goal is to: To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate … Read more →

Filling the Void

  By Amanda | December 20, 2011 - 8:26 pm | ,
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My mom’s death left a huge void in my life.  A gaping hole that I thought was going to swallow me whole.  The void was tangible.  I had hours in my day that I use to fill by talking with her.  Hours that were now empty.  The void was also intangible the lost memories, lost dreams, lost hopes.  In the months (years) after I lost her, there were many days I thought I lost myself too. I struggled desperately to fill the void. To fill that time.  To replace lost memories, dreams and hopes.  I repeatedly reached for people to … Read more →

Conflict of Faith

  By Amanda | December 20, 2011 - 7:35 pm | , ,
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I was somebody who discovered my faith on my own.  My parent’s were not overly religious – church was not a weekly event.  What they did do was expose me to religion.  Sending me to Sunday school to learn about the Church and it’s beliefs.  At the time it was a burden.  Something I had to wake up early on a weekend for.  But the foundation built during those years of Sunday school gave me an opportunity.  An opportunity to choose faith.  Which I did.  Long after my Sunday school days were behind me and I was confirmed in the … Read more →

Christmas Time with Kids is Fun (and exhausting)

  By Amanda | December 20, 2011 - 3:37 pm |
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Christmas time is a magical time of year for me.  We’ve already established that I’m a sentimental fool and the spirit of giving and love fill me.  But this year it is different.  This year I get to see Christmas through my kid’s eyes.  Sure, Sam has already experienced two Christmases but this is the first year that he is starting to “get it.” Our nightly drive home from daycare has been filled with shear excitement and squeals of “Christmas Yights” (lights).  The minute we get home Sam runs to the tree and jumps up and down till I hit … Read more →