Anniversary of a Goodbye
Top: Mom with my oldest (my son). Bottom: Mom with my firstborn daughter. “Heaven is a place we can…
Tag Archives: grief
Lessons from Grandma
My grandmother passed away a month ago today, and I miss her terribly. This will be a bittersweet Mother’s Day…
O Come, All Ye Faithful: Moving Toward Hope After a Miscarriage
This is the story of how I turned my miscarriage into a time to look toward hope instead of giving…
Teaching My Children How to Grieve
An old and very good friend of mine recently passed away. I was home watching my children when I found…
How to Help Kids Through a Funeral
Last week we found ourselves on a new journey. My grandfather-in-law passed away. We drove the nearly ten hours to…
Living with Autism: How I Knew
This is the first in a series about the real-life impact of autism on families. Check back for future posts.…
Memoir Monday: A Slight Departure
This is normally the place every week where I put a piece of my first-pregnancy-memoir-in-progress. This week I’m going to…
The Last Six Boxes
I finally “woke up.” It was odd how the loss and depression had kept me in a mental fog. I…
