09 DecHOPE Virtual Memorial Service – December 9, 2020

This year’s HOPE Memorial Service will be virtual via Zoom. The service is tonight 12/9/2020 at 7:30 pm. If you’d like to join us, please send us an email at donnamcd@me.com and we’ll send along the Zoom meeting details. Remember to bring a candle. We’ll have a virtual candle lighting ceremony.

Our regular monthly meetings will continue virtually via Zoom. Our next monthly meeting will be January 13, 2021. The meetings will occur on every second Wednesday of the month.

Let us know if you need support before then.

12 AugMonthly Meeting Updates

Hello HOPE! Our apologies for not posting an update here on Rindy’s Hope website in quite a long time. As of this writing (August 2020), the pandemic continues to prevent us from holding in person meetings. We have adjusting though and are holding meetings virtually via Zoom. If you’d like to attend please contact us via email, DM on Facebook or text us if you have our number. We will send out the Zoom meeting details privately to protect all of us.

Our meetings occur every second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 pm.

You’ve probably noticed that we did not send out a Hope Group Newsletter this Spring 2020. We are in the process of contacting all of you to announce that we will only be publishing a yearly newsletter in December as it coincides with our memorial service. It was a very tough decision to publish once instead of twice a year. Hope you understand.

We are going to make more of an effort to post every month going forward here on the website. Please spread the word to our members so that they can send us their email addresses. Everyone will automatically be notified of new posts. Our membership is also active on Facebook under Rindy’s Hope. If you haven’t followed us, please do so you do not miss any news.

We hope you are keeping healthy and safe during this pandemic. We will certainly let you know when meetings will resume in person. Please always know we remember you and your baby/babies and that we send you our best. Please let us know if you need more support.

If you’d like to be removed from new post notifications, please send us an email telling us so.

Stay well, Donna.

22 JulHello HOPE!

Thank you for visiting our page.  We hope you find some comfort here.

Please visit our NEWSLETTERS page.  We’ve recently updated with links to newsletters from 2002 to the present 2018.  We’re sure you’ll connect to something any one of our members have published.  If you’d like to submit your HOPE personal story for one of the upcoming newsletters, please send it to Donna. There’s a link for her email on the newsletter page.

A reminder regarding OUR MEETINGS:  We meet consistently every month on the SECOND WEDNESDAY at 7:30 pm.  We meet in the first floor conference room of 200 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA.  Come early if you wish to connect before the meeting.  We are usually there by 7 pm.  We always encourage our members to come early to help set up for the meeting.

To communicate with us, we are always on Facebook at Rindy’s HOPE or you can contact us on this website.

As always take care of you and be kind and gentle with yourself.

21 JanThe latest…

The group continues to grow.  It’s sad that we keep getting members but it’s a wonderfully supportive group that allows families to grieve.  Below is the latest newsletter.  In it is a loving memorial in print called Our Babies Remembered.  If you’d like to be added to the list, please fill out the form included in the newsletter.

2017 Fall Newsletter

Our next newsletter will be published in the Spring.  Any questions, please let us know.  Email Donna.

All donations should be sent to The HOPE Group, 5 Liberty Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803.

 

05 JanIt’s Been a Long Time

My apologies for the time lapse in between posts.  The group seems to be exploding with members.  So sad to see new members but encouraged that they are reaching out for support during their grief.  We’ve published a few newsletters since our last post.  Please check them out on our site.  There are many beautiful entries that may help soothe your hearts.  We continue to post on Facebook at Rindy’s Hope so please like our page and follow us!

The HOPE Group Memorial Service was well attended.  We remembered our children with a candle lighting ceremony and with the sharing of our poems and writings.  Please read the Fall 2016 Newsletter.  Inside are the details of the service.  Here’s the link:  http://bit.ly/2ifxicr

We send you our blessings and wishes for a peaceful and calm New Year!  Please reach out to us if you need additional support in between our meetings.

We meet on the SECOND WEDNESDAY of every month from 7:30 pm to approximately 10:00 pm.  We meet in the first floor conference room of 200 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA.  Please send us a message if you’d like more information.

31 MarSpring Rindy’s HOPE Newsletter Submission Deadline April 11th!

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The SPRING Rindy’s HOPE newsletter is being assembled as we speak!  Please send submissions to Donna at webmaster@rindyshope.org by April 11th!  Submissions such as poems, letters, song lyrics, etc. are acceptable.  We’d also love to include any personal stories of our members’ grief journey.

Thanks!

31 MarMay 17th, RETURN TO ZERO, premiere on Lifetime!

On Saturday, May 17th in the US and Canada, RETURN TO ZERO will premiere on LIFETIME! 

Return to Zero
“Every once in a while, a film comes along that has the power to make a difference in the lives of others. RETURN TO ZERO is that powerful and moving story that so many people around the world who have faced similar challenges can relate to,” said A+E Networks senior vp international programming and production Christian Murphy. “We felt it very important to present this moving film with such incredible performances from A-list stars as the first global premiere for Lifetime.”

CLICK HERE to learn more!

24 FebWon’t You Light a Candle to Remember Rindy?

Rindy Huebner, founding member of HOPE, died almost one year ago and we continue to miss her every single day.  Her mission to help other parents endure continues in her memory.  Rindy touched so many lives and we have been blessed to know her.

This coming Wednesday, February 26th, 2014 will be the one year anniversary of her passing.  Won’t you light a candle to remember Rindy?

As a community it would be such a loving gesture if we could all LIGHT A CANDLE and remember Rindy and her family.  Especially if we could all light the candle at the same time.  So that’s the plan…

This Wednesday, please light a candle at 7 p.m. and place the candle in a window so that Rindy will see the light and know how much we love her.  Also, please send warm thoughts and prayers to the family.  We all know how hard it is to continue on this grief journey and it is always a warm feeling to know that others are thinking of you.  If you would like to mail Dennis or Karen a card please do so c/o Dennis Huebner, 5 Liberty Avenue, Burlington, MA 01803.

If you would like, please POST A PHOTO either here at rindyshope.org or on the Rindy’s HOPE FACEBOOK page.  What a wonderful way to document this precious event.  There’s power in the love of HOPE!

Any questions, please let me know.  Thanks for all of the love and support.

Donna

 

24 JanLabor Day: A Movie Review by Andrea Meyer

A new motion picture is out in theaters called Labor Day.  One of our HOPE members, Andrea Meyer, has written the following review.  Please take a chance to go see the movie.  Thanks Andrea!

The movie stars Kate Winslett as a troubled divorced mom who is forced to take an escaped convict into her home. It is being publicized as an unlikely love story between these two lonely people. But what the ads are not mentioning is that it’s also the story about the grief of losing a child. The woman suffered several miscarriages and a stillbirth that she never recovered from and we learn that this loss might be what really forms the bond between these two. It’s not a perfect film, but it captures well the after-effects of such a tragedy.

Here’s a link to the site:

http://www.labordaymovie.com/

22 NovWhy I’m Okay with Having One Child by HOPE member, Andrea Meyer

Elle/Andrea MeyerThere are things a woman pregnant with her second child is simply not supposed to say: No, I’m not excited. No I don’t want to be pregnant. No, I don’t want this baby.

Don’t get me wrong. I love being a mother. I’m so crazy about my son, Aidan, that even my mom friends tease me about my unrestrained gushing. But I wasn’t prepared to be pregnant for the second time. In the picture my husband took of me right after I took the test, I sit hunched on the couch, my right hand covering my face as if I’m hiding from the paparazzi, the blue-and-white plastic stick in my left. So when this baby’s heart inexplicably stopped beating in the ninth month of pregnancy, it felt like payback. I was convinced on some level that she’d died because I hadn’t wanted her enough.  Read More…In Elle Magazine Onlline


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