tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post1400971915751905913..comments2024-03-07T06:00:45.082-07:00Comments on The Freckled Fox: finding the right threadEmily Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09302498123966365253noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-22696194265721807582017-12-19T11:40:52.983-07:002017-12-19T11:40:52.983-07:00I've been so captivated by your family's j...I've been so captivated by your family's journey. I've literally read every single one of your posts (catching up from way back) and I haven't posted a comment on any until this post. Because, wow. <br /><br />When you said "Martin's warrior story, our family's journey, it's helping to save lives. The fight that we were in and continue in every day, Martin's pain and courage... his faith. People he'll never meet or know about in this life are seeking treatment now and/or are cancer free completely because of the pieces of our story shared here. So many people have come forward to tell me about their journey that started here. That they've saved their marriage, or decided to go forward with starting their family, or that they simply have hope and strength in life and love again. Not because of my typing, but because of our story together. Because of Martin's love and strength, because of my babies' smiles, because of our pain and heartache, because of second chances at love, because of my weakness and frailty. Our humanity, this community." <br /><br />Yes. Thank you. Your family's story is life-changing for your readers. It is important to remember that when it's hard to go on. In so many ways, your story has impacted me. Please never stop writing. It is one of many of your obvious God-given gifts. You are changing lives, you are helping others connect. Thank you.Goal of Losinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02179789107792877804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-5997404614800295872017-01-27T00:17:09.151-07:002017-01-27T00:17:09.151-07:00I came across your Instagram account and was intri...I came across your Instagram account and was intrigued by your description of who you are so I read this post. It is an incredible thing to have such enormous support through such heartbreak and loss. My heart aches for what you have suffered and rejoices that you have helpers who love you dearly. All my best to you in this new year. ~ VirginiaVJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02701880571478196027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-79947400629647726072017-01-27T00:04:42.801-07:002017-01-27T00:04:42.801-07:00I came here because I've been wondering how yo...I came here because I've been wondering how you are lately. It's funny how the internet can connect us to people. I always feel more grounded in what truly matters when I've read your writing. You're so very inspiring. You have a beautiful family, and a beautiful soul! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05202822477405436466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-82654164192015282332017-01-26T17:10:36.698-07:002017-01-26T17:10:36.698-07:00Such a beautiful post <3 I love those photos to...Such a beautiful post <3 I love those photos too. You are beautiful!<br /><br />www.upyourvlog.comUpYourVloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10585993748058517378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-67280191696827770112017-01-21T21:09:46.119-07:002017-01-21T21:09:46.119-07:00*tears* ((hugs)) ❤ prayers for your heartache and ...*tears* ((hugs)) ❤ prayers for your heartache and beautiful family.Shavavian Allister https://www.blogger.com/profile/17996788774004685259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-78498622075290971472017-01-15T10:53:27.327-07:002017-01-15T10:53:27.327-07:00I think I've read this post 10 times or more. ...I think I've read this post 10 times or more. You're braver than I could ever be. I hate that someone would say something unkind, when you're always come across as super, super kind. I look forward to reading more soup recipes and hair tutorials as time goes on. I also wish you and your family the absolute best.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18037592625305475639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-25854172201452891242017-01-13T09:25:48.952-07:002017-01-13T09:25:48.952-07:00Good job Mama! So brave!Good job Mama! So brave!1910on4thhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12080495379782461506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-83842204391645903882017-01-13T09:24:58.053-07:002017-01-13T09:24:58.053-07:00Good job Mama! You're so brave!Good job Mama! You're so brave!1910on4thhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12080495379782461506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-61038763743319166742017-01-12T06:23:35.562-07:002017-01-12T06:23:35.562-07:00This "rambly" post is so raw and beautif...This "rambly" post is so raw and beautiful. I feel so much happiness and grief and much more that is difficult to translate. For those feelings I love and all because you are so incredibly brave, stepping out and exposing so much of your personal life that so many of us are not even close to brave enough to do. Thank you (for a lack of better expression) for sharing your beautiful perfectly imperct life with us all! God bless you and your beautifully blessed family! And wow on your husband for being such a vital person for not only you buy those lovely children. Truly and incredible man for sitting there and (asking) for those memories they cherish to be shared with him. What a truly selfless man. So beautiful! XoxoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07694186726610195429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-14601723534136503812017-01-06T07:16:00.910-07:002017-01-06T07:16:00.910-07:00This was such a raw, heartfelt post. I cried thoug...This was such a raw, heartfelt post. I cried though most of it. I am only an occasional reader and only found you shortly before Martin passed (through some instagram collaboration or mention), but I have been so inspired by you. Not so much because of any heroic efforts or superhuman powers you are showing the world, but because of the real in you and the tragedy you have had and will continue to brave. You can do this. We are all cheering you on. You will not always feel as broken as you feel now. Sending all the love I possess.<br />Your stranger friend,<br />Janelle<br />xoxoxoJanellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10416293323018611014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-17616905321839192142017-01-05T17:30:07.530-07:002017-01-05T17:30:07.530-07:00Love. Thank you.Love. Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394734401151827626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-52782921442976108402017-01-05T17:29:42.616-07:002017-01-05T17:29:42.616-07:00Love. Thank you.Love. Thank you.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394734401151827626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-40499417702747513282017-01-03T11:13:39.727-07:002017-01-03T11:13:39.727-07:00Emily,
Thank you a million times over for sharing...Emily,<br /><br />Thank you a million times over for sharing and for being so vulnerable. I'm in the middle of a divorce and I know it does not compare to losing Martin, but your message of hope, faith and love is needed. <br /><br />Thank you, thank you, thank you. <br /><br />Much love,Kristenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01680927779338731207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-9743752148164880492016-12-31T09:19:10.094-07:002016-12-31T09:19:10.094-07:00Ps I don't know if you've seen the new Mor...Ps I don't know if you've seen the new Mormon Channel series "Hope Works" but I think you'd especially like one titled "Seeing Green." https://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/hope-works/seeing-green-jill-thomas-hope-worksJenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02926053345508654045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-48671992118660145502016-12-31T09:14:50.259-07:002016-12-31T09:14:50.259-07:00You are an amazing example of strength and resilie...You are an amazing example of strength and resilience! Don't you worry about trying to cook more or put up tutorials or whatever. You have been through so much. Allow yourself to grieve. And if typing here helps, by all means, ramble all you want! Allow yourself to feel all the emotions as they come. And don't worry about us and what we may "need." Love your babies. Love your new husband. Let them help you heal. I'm going to share something that a friend told me when I lost my fifth child (and later my sixth and seventh) at 16 weeks gestation, that really helped me a lot in understanding and dealing with grief. She said that grief is like a book. A huge, gigantic book - like the big dictionaries you can find in big, fancy libraries. At first, this book sits open all the time, right in the middle of the main walkway where you have to trip over it and look at it all the time. Eventually, you are able to close the book, but it still sits there where you have to see it and walk around it all the time. And sometimes you walk past it only to find that it has fallen open when you thought it was closed and you have to work to get it closed again. After a while, it stays closed more than open and you have the strength to move it. Not up onto a shelf quite yet. Just somewhere where you aren't tripping over it all the time. And yet, sometimes, you find that it has moved back of its own accord. Fallen open all over again. And it takes you time to get it closed and moved out of the way again. Not as much time as when it first appeared. But it's not immediate either. Then someday you realize that the book has been closed and on a side table for a while without you realizing it. It can still fall open though and it does but not as often. Eventually the book makes it to a shelf. But it has a way of falling off that shelf and opening up when you least expect it. At first that happens a lot. It falls off the shelf, sometimes open, sometimes closed. Sometimes you can get it back up quickly and easily. Sometimes it creeps back to the walkway and stays open awhile. Some day, maybe in the very distant future, maybe in a much shorter time than you expected, that book will stay on the shelf most of the time. Don't expect it to stay there permanently. It has a mind of its own. But for the most part, it will stay on the shelf. And sometimes you will get the opportunity to get it down and look through it or your own choice and put it back when you are done. And sometimes it will take you by surprise and you'll find it on your pillow at night or at a special event for one of your children and you'll have to deal with it as best you can. It will always be there. It will never go away. But someday, you won't have to trip over it all the time. Someday, you will get to choose more and more often whether it stays on the shelf or whether you take it down. Grief like this doesn't go away ever. It stays with you. It just changes over time. And how long it takes isn't really something you can control. You can learn what you need to do when you find the book open. You can turn to our Heavenly Father to comfort you and sustain you while it's open and even to help you find a way to close it. But the process is one that has to be lived and experienced at its own pace. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks is an appropriate grieving time or process. There's no "right" way to experience it, only your way. And we are here and will always be here to support you even though we've not met in person, even if you write nothing for months or only journal your grief process for months or jump right back to the things you did before. We are here and we love you!Jenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02926053345508654045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-13534848045597359672016-12-30T15:56:15.482-07:002016-12-30T15:56:15.482-07:00THIS is one of the most beautiful pieces you have ...THIS is one of the most beautiful pieces you have written and I have read! Emily, never stop filling this world with your beautiful heart, sharing humanity and life with your words- we ALL have felt the same in one way or another! You dare to say what we feel and what many of us are afraid to even admit! Thank you for your honesty and being simply YOU! Nothing else would make this virtual place as beautiful as it is. <br />May your heart be forever this beautiful. <br />Thank you- all the way from GermanyMarikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05740596707175128726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-13159749329621746602016-12-28T02:16:13.323-07:002016-12-28T02:16:13.323-07:00You have tremendous courage and grace. I have neve...You have tremendous courage and grace. I have never had the gift for knowing the right words to be able to share the grief of loosing first one son and then another. I answered curious questions but did not know how to share my shattered heart. People were afraid to be near me for fear that it might happen to them. They truly do not know what to say or how to be. I learned that the most important things in this world are people and how we treat them. You are a gift to this world. Please know that you are loved and prayed for. HugsKetenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17635735316798243178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-51694770319192351662016-12-27T21:41:52.498-07:002016-12-27T21:41:52.498-07:00Emily I follow you on instagram and now I read ur ...Emily I follow you on instagram and now I read ur blog! I think u are amazing!! Young Beautiful eloquent the list goes on . I wish you and your babies much happiness and I'm glad you all have Richard!! I thought I saw him wearing your ring and I thought I saw you wearing your ring holding the camera I thought oh did they get married I was happy for the 7 of you! No judgment here just pure joy that you and ur family are finding happiness and strength with each other and a sweet loving person! Much love and hugs! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01516083689352667330noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-45146491366468902442016-12-25T09:24:53.368-07:002016-12-25T09:24:53.368-07:00This is my first post which I have ever read from ...This is my first post which I have ever read from your blog. It is really inspiring and brings a lot of strength. So you have a new reader from abroad:)<br />Greetings from Poland! summerChocolatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04342195664020887874noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-66636554772788068952016-12-23T17:49:20.658-07:002016-12-23T17:49:20.658-07:00You write beautifully! I found your blog "by ...You write beautifully! I found your blog "by accident" a while ago, and I have followed your journey, feeling for your family even though we have never met in person. Your little ones seem so sweet, and you are such a strong woman. Can't wait to see what God has in store for you and your family. xoAlyssahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05073090992584673133noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-40664338442821882942016-12-23T09:32:38.766-07:002016-12-23T09:32:38.766-07:00I've been reading your blog for years and find...I've been reading your blog for years and find you so inspiring. Wishing you so much happiness. So glad that you and your sweet children have Richard in your lives. xoxoAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03869642445427124511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-31380641061969198742016-12-22T17:36:23.440-07:002016-12-22T17:36:23.440-07:00I'm just now sitting to catch up and read this...I'm just now sitting to catch up and read this, and as always- everything was so beautifully put. I'm so proud of you and I'm so honored to be able to see you in this journey and watch all that God has planned for you. Love you mama!!! Jaimiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382690241674574183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-70434547392414921602016-12-21T09:40:54.984-07:002016-12-21T09:40:54.984-07:00I've not been much of a blog reader lately, as...I've not been much of a blog reader lately, as I barely have time for myself. But I find myself clicking to your blog from time to time over the past couple months. Today was not the best day to read while sitting at my desk at work as the tears just stream down my face. Goodness. What a wonderful path your life as taken you. The good and bad has made you the person you are today. Your children will understand that as well as how much they helped you in time of need as well. I hope only the best for you Emily and your family! Have a wonderful Christmas and an amazing New Year!!!DeAnnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07458845744540822584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-3806292578939396872016-12-21T01:53:42.352-07:002016-12-21T01:53:42.352-07:00Sweet presh Emily thank you for sharing so much💟 ...Sweet presh Emily thank you for sharing so much💟 You are truly amazing & I pray you & your family all the time. Praise Jesus for people like Richard who give so selflessly & for second chances in life... your Martin is always on my mind & I think he is so grateful that you & the babies are not alone.. Continue to always keep his memory alive & may you continue to heal & find moments of happiness & love constantly!! Xoxo2countrychickshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15894316178077829621noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825683437599074471.post-21903347336729612502016-12-20T13:05:55.916-07:002016-12-20T13:05:55.916-07:00I clearly don't know you, but I love you and y...I clearly don't know you, but I love you and your family so dearly. You inspire me to love my family more fiercely. Thank you for your vulnerability and willingness to endure. ❤Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00282536691179608767noreply@blogger.com