Yesterday, I was asked to share my story. A lot of times, Emmett comes up. Something will happen, someone will say something, I'l...
Showing posts with label grief & loss. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grief & loss. Show all posts
Loss hierarchy.
This has been on my mind a lot lately. I remember a few years ago, before I had either of my babies, when one of my dearest friends ex...
When you don't know what to say.
Over the past year, I've heard a lot of...interesting comments. Mainly coming from well-meaning friends and family, who inadvertentl...
Reminders to myself.
Valentine's Day. It's funny how something as simple as a typically over commercialized holiday can bring out fresh waves of grie...
Where I am, where I've been.
More specifically, where I am and where I've been, particularly when I'm not here. To put it plainly, lately I've been str...
Goodbye, 2015.
To say this year has been an emotional roller coaster would (probably) be the biggest exaggeration I've ever made. The chaotic journe...
On learning to love.
I keep thinking about everyone who has died this year. My son, my uncle, and my grandmother. I reminisce about their lives, and feel grate...
Be gentle with yourself.
Purchase this beautiful print here ! I stumbled across this beautiful print on Etsy somewhat recently, and the words on it have been an ...
Six months.
Today marks six months in Heaven for our sweet baby. Sometimes it feels like it has already been years since Emmett went home. Then th...
"Here's how you get through this."
The above photograph is one of the very few that I have with or of Emmett. (I spent another hour crying today because I went through t...
Every father counts.
Each holiday after a loss comes and goes with such a vast array of emotion. This year, we have observed Easter, Mother's Day, and n...
Regarding our online grief support group.
When we were in the hospital, I spoke with a couple of social workers, who provided me with some pamphlets and lists of grief support groups...
Keeping the faith while enduring A Great and Terrible Loss.
This is my raw and unfiltered reality. Since losing Emmett, I have struggled to find balance. I think I'm doing fairly okay, buy I ha...
Rick Brandt.
Captured on Mackinac, chosen for my fisherman uncle :) This past Monday, my uncle took his final breath here on earth, after a long, har...
A few things you think about, when you lose a child.
Somewhere between week 32 & 33. Yesterday was 14 weeks. 14 weeks. That's 14 weeks without Emmett…without hearing his cry…wi...
A bit about Mother's Day, and where I'm at (mentally) these days.
I enjoy setting a pretty table :) This Mother's Day, I tried to keep things very, very simple. I was trying to face the day with br...
To the one's who are hurting on Mother's Day.
I wrote this a few days before Mother's Day, but I couldn't bring myself to post it. I had a really hard time accepting the truth a...
Responding to the unfairness of it all.
I remember when we took Ryan's sister to Emmett's grave, she made a statement that really struck me. As we were looking at all of t...
Embracing Mother's Day, even though it hurts.
Mother's Day: another holiday that is going to look so much different than I originally thought. I had anticipated holding Emme...
A Great and Terrible Loss.
A loss is a loss, but when you lose a child (regardless of their age), that is a spectacular burden that I refer to as a Great and Terribl...
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