Susan Dieter-Robinson

Making Our Own Rainbow

No words today just memories of a really fun day with friends. Color Run September 2013

We have lots of love in our house and in our lives so of course we love Valentine’s Day. I would spend the 13 days leading up to it giving little love notes to Anna and Abigail, making heart-shaped cookies and sandwiches for their lunches and planning what we were going to spread love onContinue reading “Love”

Leaning

When I first moved back to Oregon in 2004 I started working with a girl who had been in a car accident while traveling with her mom and brother to school. She, 11 years old at the time, had suffered a traumatic brain injury and her older brother, 13, was killed. Upon hearing her story andContinue reading “Leaning”

In my Dreams

Last night I dreamt about Anna for the first time since she went to Heaven. It was beautiful and very comforting, just like I knew it would be. My heart is happy after seeing her again, even if it was only in my dreams. Hopefully Abigail will visit soon and maybe even Sampson. I wouldContinue reading “In my Dreams”

100 Days

When Anna was little we had a dear friend who shared with me some wisdom I have held on to. She shared that a parents responsibility was to teach their children to be independent of them from day one. That our little beings were their own independent little souls and that independence needed to beContinue reading “100 Days”

Stanley

I remember once in college, or maybe even high school being in the same room when the movie Caddyshack was on TV. A classic movie of 1980 and one I really didn’t pay much attention to. All I remember is that my brothers, along with most of the other males in my life, loved thisContinue reading “Stanley”