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01/05/2026

Huge thank you to everyone who donated blood yesterday for our blood drive! We were surprisingly one unit over goal, which is amazing considering the lack of planning from my end this year!  Mason was an incredible help in setting up and making cards thanking the donors for honoring his little brother- he also lost a 🦷 during the event!

Versiti receives 50% of its blood donations soley from drives like this in general, so it’s amazing to see how we can help our local community hospitals in saving lives. Versiti scheduled this one ahead of discussing with me and I found out only a few weeks prior to by opening an email with awareness materials, so Kyle and I took it as a sign from above and our family- kiddos included, figured it out ✝️❤️

01/02/2026

12/01/2025

Please consider giving the gift of life this holiday season 🩸

https://donateblood.versiti.org/donor/schedules/drive_schedule/11629187

Use link above or contact Carly to schedule 414-807-4470

10/15/2025

Saying extra prayers for all loss families. Saying their names with you today and always. ❤️

10/07/2025

Babies don’t replace babies.

October is Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness Month, and I think it’s important to say this out loud,

A new baby doesn’t erase the one you lost.
A rainbow doesn’t erase the storm that came before it.
A new heartbeat doesn’t silence the ache of the one that stopped.

Every child is their own person.
Every bond is unique.
Every love is sacred and irreplaceable.

Grief and joy can exist side by side.
You can miss one baby with every ounce of your soul, while still loving another with your whole heart.
It’s not replacement.
It’s not forgetting.
It’s carrying both love and loss at the same time.

So if you’ve lost a baby, your love for them is forever valid.
And if you’ve gone on to have more children, that love doesn’t replace, it simply multiplies.

Because babies don’t replace babies.
And this month, we remember them all.

©️Caty Sanders

08/27/2025

Pray for the victims and students shot this morning during a school Mass at Annunciation Parish in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is heartbreaking for all the parents that were excited for their child to begin the school year on so many depths. My heart aches and I can’t even to begin to imagine their pain. 💔

There are no words. None.

08/22/2025

Hoping all these parents have a gentle day. We were blessed with another rainbow baby recently, sweet Emmy Lou. She was a twin, and we were diagnosed shortly after our second ultrasound with Vanishing Twin syndrome. From a mama with multiple losses of different kinds, each one matters, and I am always praying for you! ❤️❤️‍🩹☀️

National Rainbow Baby Day is coming up...

This day is bittersweet.
We celebrate our rainbow baby.. the baby born after a storm, after loss.
We celebrate their life. Their light. Their healing.

But in celebrating… we also mourn.
Because the very word rainbow means there was a storm before it.
There was a baby we never got to hold, a heartbeat we never got to hear again, a future we had to grieve.

So.. we celebrate and we ache.
We hold our rainbow close, but we carry our angel just as close in our hearts.
Both are part of our story. Both are part of us.

To every parent who knows this kind of love and loss, you are not alone. 💛🌈

07/29/2025

You can actually die of a broken heart after the death of a loved one, especially if the grief is overwhelming, new research shows.