Someone recently asked me about why this site is named Days of Plenty.  After all, you wouldn't normally associate pregnancy loss with a phrase such as days of plenty... So, here is the story.

We lost our first daughter, Alia Jane, in April of 2008.  I went back to work after a few weeks.  I was lost, I was scared and I was so very sad.  I was listening to an online radio station that played broadway music (I know.. but I like it!).  And this song came on.  And it took the air out of my lungs....
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It was ten months yesterday since we lost our sweet Ella.  It's surprising how life has a way of moving on, and yet, not moving on at all.  Sometimes the pain is as fresh as when we first found out she was gone.  And the pain is also much deeper and more profound with the passing of time as well.  I long to know her.   She would be 5 months old now.. would she be like her brother and smiling and happy?  Would she be crawling?  Would she be sleeping through the night?  How would she feel in my...
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