HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!!!

Hope all is going well for you. We miss you and your sister so much! I hope someday to hear from you 2, then we'll have a real party and I can spoil the heck out of you


Lots of Love
Daddy

Dearest Girls, 

I am adding this here to make some room on the front of your site.






To Ashley and Mina,

Did you know the Julia Ward Howe is your

Great aunt of 4 generations?



She is from
Grandpa Mark's Mom's

side of the family.


She was the first woman to be elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (see National Institute of

of Margaret Fuller (1883),

From Sunset Ridge: Poems Old and New (1898),

and Reminiscences 1819-1899 (1899).
[edit] US history
Main article: Mother's Day (United States)

Julia Ward Howe wrote the Mother's Day

Proclamation in 1870,
as a call for peace and disarmament.

An excerpt follows:

“ From the voice of a devastated
Earth a voice goes up with

Our own.
It says: "Disarm! Disarm!

The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."

Blood does not wipe out dishonor,

Nor violence indicate possession.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war,

Let women now leave all that may be left of home

For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.

Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means

Whereby the great human family can live in peace...
Howe failed in her attempt to get formal

recognition of a Mother's Day for Peace.

Her idea was influenced by Ann Jarvis, a young

Appalachian homemaker who, starting in 1858,

had attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers' Work Days.

She organized women throughout the Civil War to work for better sanitary conditions for both sides, and in 1868 she began work to reconcile Union and Confederate neighbors.

In parts of the United States it is customary to plant tomatoes outdoors after mother's day (and not before.)

When Jarvis died, her daughter, named Anna Jarvis, started the crusade to found a memorial day for women.

The first such Mother's Day was celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, in the church where the elder Ann Jarvis had taught

Sunday School. Grafton is the home to the International Mother's Day Shrine.

From there, the custom caught on — spreading eventually to 45 states. The holiday was declared officially by somes states beginning in 1912.

In 1914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the first national Mother's Day, as a day for American citizens to show the flag in honour of those mothers whose sons had died in war (with specific reference to The Great War, now known as World War I). Nine years after the first official Mother's Day holiday, commercialization of the U.S. holiday became so rampant that

Anna Jarvis herself became a major opponent of

what the holiday had become. Mother's Day

continues to this day to be one of the most

commercially successful U.S. holidays.

British history - Mothering Sunday

Main article: Mothering Sunday

Mothering Sunday, commonly called

"Mothers' Day"
in the United Kingdom, has no direct connection to the American practice.

It falls on the fourth Sunday of Lent (exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday). It is believed to have originated from the 16th Century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day.

Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families.[2]

As a result of secularization, it is now principally used to celebrate and give thanks for mothers, although it is still recognized in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus as well as the traditional concept 'mother church'.

Julia Ward Howe

She was the Great aunt of your

 Great Grandma Barbara Howe (Cloutier). 

Grandma Barbara Howe (Cloutier)was an artist.

She was a wonderful woman. She had a heart of gold.

She passed away last year on June, 1, 2006.




Your Abuelita Margarita and

Tia Linda were both strong women as well.

They both had a heart of gold.

Sadly, that ended up costing both

of them their lives in the end.

They are my mother and my sister.

They both did great things for many people.

And they lived their lives to their fullest.

We honor them every October during

"National Domestic Violence Awreness month."

We have started an online purple Ribbon

Campaign that has grown big

over the last 3 years.


I have helped save many women sharing their stories.

Please know my lil ones,

that no matter what they all loved you.

And now, they are all angels watching over you.

We are all praying for

your safety and happiness.

Always in our hearts and prayers Ashley and Mina Cloutier




This is my Grandma Carolyn with baby me. 



She is my dad's mom.
She became an Angel on September 17, 2003.

She had a stroke.
She was a wonderful Grandma.

She had many unofficially

adopted grandchildren.

She loved everyone and

had a lot of presents for

needy children every year. 

If Roses grow in Heaven,

Lord please pick a bunch for me,

Place them in my Mother's arms

And tell her they're from me.



Tell her I love her and miss her,

And when she turns to smile,

Place a kiss upon her cheek

And hold her for awhile.



Because remembering her is easy,

I do it every day,

But there's an ache within my heart

That will never go away. 

Dearest Ashley and Mina, 

It's another Valentine's day! I still hold you close to my heart everyday. I miss you and love you soo much. 
I pray one day, you will be able to share a Valentine's Day with your real family again. 

We are having a party. We are remembering the importance of love for each other. 

Hugs and kisses, 

Love Mommy

I bear witness to the fact that Susana Regan Cloutier and her husband have never made threats of any kind or made statements of any kind or even implications that they would kidnap their daughters from their adoptive parents, neither on the myspace pages or on this rememberance site.

As a visitor to all of these sites, all I see and have seen on these pages is a tribute to two little girls from their real mother that can not be with them, that loves them, misses them, and hopes that one day they will know the truth.  What I also see on these pages is a statement of the facts, that DCFS took the children from their parents, they tried to do everything in their power within the guidelines to get their children back, and the Lutheran Family Services placed their children in a pre-adoptive home and the birth parents were unable to get the children back.  I see speaking out against the practices of the agancy, and statement of facts.  These statements have not been altered.  The only mention of the adoptive parents on the site was that they made a verbal agreement that the girls brothers would be allowed to remain in contact with their sisters, and that this verbal agreement was broken.  Nothing slanderous or false was stated ever about the adoptive family.

There were never any threats or implications of any kidnapping plots or any other malicious acts.  Susana Regan is a good mother, a great person who spends her life trying to help others and raise domestic violence awareness.  There is no reason for her statements to have been maliciously taken out of context.  Anyone passing through can clearly see that there is no threats of any sort on these websites and never was.

As I live in Pennsylvania, I would not physically be able to appear in a court of law to attest to my statements, but I can attest to the fact that there were no statements or threats made prior to the date of the filing for the protection order, nor after, and there was no altering or coverup.  I stand by my statement, and owuld be willing to speak to anyone via phone if necessary.  What you see on this website now, is the same as what was here before, with the exception of a few more pictures and a personal statement from Mrs. Cloutier referring to the website being made private since it was taken out of context.  Mrs. Cloutier can provide my contact information if that is needed.

Respectfully,
Mettamarie Woodruff