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Resilience is facing what life brings every morning when the sun comes up. Whether it is trying to be a good spouse, living in the moment and enjoying it, managing my autoimmune disease, the challenges of parenting a 7 y/o and 16 y/o or balancing family and career.

I've learned how to adapt to different ways of life, having moved several times, and being far away from family. It has been a great life lesson and allowed me to actually be much closer to my family emotionally.

Thank God for resilience! My oldest son had a brain tumor removed 24 years ago. At that time it was experimental surgery. It was a horribly hard time...a month in Boston Children's Hospital with him by myself. He made it and is a wonderful young man!
After 24 years of marraige, I faced a very nasty divorce. Domestic violence is the worst thing to happen. Again, I have made it, with God's help, and have raised 3 wonderful young men.
Resilience is all about perservering through all else. Thank God we can.

Resilence for me has been living in a loveless marriage for 12 years, trying to make it work and finding the strength to get up and finally call it quits and now learning to be all alone

Thank you for the giveaway! For me it is making it through yet another deployment. We are more than 1/2 way through our third deployment. And right now my daughter is crying everyday for her daddy.

My thoughts on resilience is simply rolling with the punches. A terrible economy has us all down. Every day many of us we need to think of ways to be creative with our budgets so that we can remain in our homes. Working more than one job, but happy to be working at all. We may not with the newest supplies, but we will survive. I'm sure we all appreciate the chance to win something our hearts long to have on a layout. PS - What a great name!!

Kit looks great I love the colors!!!

Resilience for me is having the strength to make it through the loss of my 18 year old son to a car accident. It has been a rough road but with the love of God, my family and dear friends I have been able to see past the darkness and accept that it was God's will. It doesn't take the hurt away away but the promise is there that we will be together again one day.

Wow! After reading everyones comments so far...AMAZING women out there!!! I would have to say my greatest resilience so far has been in dealing with a troubled young school teacher who developed feelings for my teenage daughter. There was family history of mental illness and when he was arrested for pursuing my daughter, he was also charged with having a firearm on school property!!! I lived in constant fear for my family...Despite a restraining order, he kept showing up at her sports events and contacting us. He served some jail time and is in counseling now for anger mgt. issues. Has been several months now since we have heard anything from or about him. Being resilient is getting up every morning, putting a smile on my face and not letting this "creep" waste anymore of my family's precious time here together on earth.

As a teenage mother, I was faced with many difficult challenges. I am now the proud mother of a 16 year old boy and I am married to his father. Through many obstacles, we were able to stay together, get married, buy a beautiful home and have a happy family. The road hasn't been easy trying to finish high school, find a balance between who am I and who do I need to be for this little person. I think that after all this time and many other struggles along the way I can look back and know that I wouldn't have changed the choice I made to become a mother and that the ride along the way has been worth it

I found that my resilience comes from AMAZING friends and having a strong idea of who I am and what I want. It's refreshing to find that while things were falling apart around me I knew who I was the whole time and that made bouncing back so much easier.

I think that I have experience, in my young years of age :), some incredible, asstounding happenings already in my life. Being a military wife, I have learned to cope from being away from family and raising two beautiful little girls, Madison 5, and Ella 6 months. Not even in the past year, when I was pregnant with Ella, I was hospitalized at 7 months later resulting in the doctors inducing me at 33 weeks. Everything seemed almost perfect until the day my husband and I found out that we were not aloud to take home our new bundle of joy. Ella was diagnosed with Citrobacter, a rare bacterial form of mininjitus, that caused severe brain abcesses. After being only 2 months old and undergoing two major brain surgeries, we continued and antibiotic therapy and were able to finally bring her home at 4 months. This journey in our lives was by far the most memorable, scary yet joyous, all together. We have overcome the impossible. Now back in our home 2 months later, Ella's health is well and she continues a monthly deveopmental therapy program in home. We are so very greatful for this experience, for it has truly proven to not only myself, but my family the true meaning of being resilient.

Having a father that has hurt you many times and continues to cause you pain - moving past that takes resiliency.

i am dealing with something i never thought i would with one of my children...it is the hardest thing i have ever done in my life! it is so inspiring to read everyone's posts and know that we are all dealing with something hard and handling it in our own way. scrapbooking is therapeutic for me and my way of decompressing.

for me, trying to have our daughter has been a battle. 3 miscarriages, but we are not giving up!

My great aunt Bette is an inspiration. She was a foster child, rose above her challenges and joined the Navy, raised a family and is loved by many. She is nearing the end of her life this weekend, so she is heavy on my mind today.

Living abroad for 20 years(Japan and UK),having my kids and bringing them up w/out any help.The struggle w/ 2 new languages and culture .

While I like to think of myself as a strong woman, the area that I have to say that I have shown the most resillience is in my quest to become a Mom. I have fought long (almost 11 years) and hard (5 miscarriages as well as the premature birth and death of my daughter, Hannah). With every new monthly cycle, I look at it as an opportunity for success rather than a sign of defeat. While my heart breaks daily for the child that I lost, it beats with such pride and love for the moments we had together where I got to sing to her, bathe her, take photos of her, love her ... and be her MOM. It is because of this resillience I have within me that I can talk about her with happiness. It is because of this resillience I have within me that I can push forward after all these years and still look at each month as an opportunity for success.

My resilience comes in the form of my faith and being able to stay positive in the midst of difficult situations.

Thanks for the chance for the great giveaway!

My example of resilience is in being a mother and all the blessings that come with that!