Living With Purpose
Yes, Children Grieve Too Today is National Childhood Grief Awareness Day. It’s kind of ironic, because just the other night, quite seemingly out of no-where, I heard Jelly Bean sobbing in her room. Sobbing. Now, she is a very dramatic four year old, so crying is not an unusual event in our home. In fact, […]
Today is International Bereaved Mother’s Day 2014. We have done a lot to be proud of in the last few months… to bring awareness to grieving mothers and to do our part in supporting them as Mother’s Day approaches. I will have an entire post about all of that sometime this week. But for today, […]
Today is International Bereaved Mother’s Day 2014. We have done a lot to be proud of in the last few months… to bring awareness to grieving mothers and to do our part in supporting them as Mother’s Day approaches. I will have an entire post about all of that sometime this week. But for today, […]
Today, August 19th, is the 5th Annual “Day of Hope.” This day to honor and celebrate babies and children lost was begun by CarlyMarie and Project Heal in 2008. Visit CarlyMarie’s facebook page for a wide variety of banners, cover and profile images for infant, baby, pregnancy, and child loss. Carly Marie began Project Heal […]
As I was driving the children to church last Sunday, I decided to flip off the XM radio and on over to local radio. I put it on 89.7 the local Christian music channel. (I always feel a little inappropriate listening to booty shaking music on the way to church… this seemed to be a […]
Isn’t it crazy that so many of us hate change, and yet there are only two things that I feel certain about – the fact that we all die and the fact that everything changes. So why not embrace it more? I guess it really depends on the type of change, doesn’t it? For example, […]
Surviving Infant Loss Watching a friend suffer the loss of a child or baby is one of the most difficult situations you may ever encounter in life. Surviving infant loss is one of the most worst experiences a mother can go through. Loss and death combined with what is typically a positive, joyous occasion puts […]
It’s not International Bereaved Mother’s Day today, but some days it feels like every day should be. Once bitten by pregnancy or infant loss, always plagued. I had intended on spending today going over my notes from Bloggy Bootcamp and writing a stellar post about all the amazing things I learned and how much better […]
I feel quiet and still this week. The air feels like it is made of thick jelly, and I’m struggling to breathe. Each step takes effort. The last few weeks have exhausted me, drained me, made me proud, made me happy, made me sad. While we accomplished something wonderful through our efforts for the March […]
I feel quiet and still this week. The air feels like it is made of thick jelly, and I’m struggling to breathe. Each step takes effort. The last few weeks have exhausted me, drained me, made me proud, made me happy, made me sad. While we accomplished something wonderful through our efforts for the March […]
Or maybe just straight up coincidence? Perhaps. But I’m not sure I really believe that much in coincidence any more. Although I don’t understand why certain things happen at the time, it seems that later, when I look back, I can see exactly how things came to be. I’m getting ahead of myself! A few […]
I have been struggling a lot this last week. I don’t know why. Nothing in particular has triggered it, that I can think of beyond the fact that I miss my baby girl so, so much. I have so very much to be thankful for, yet I am not content. I want FOUR children. […]
I have always been a bit socially awkward. Not weird, just unpolished. I often stick my foot in my mouth or I blurt out things without thinking. Basically I have no filter. Oh and I have a very strange laugh when I’m nervous. Since losing an infant, this problem has grown worse. Now I make […]
The worst day of my life was December 21, 2011. One year ago today was my infant daughter Kathryn’s funeral. I dreaded the moment in which we all acknowledged that she was gone forever. All of my husband’s family had arrived the night before. And even though I was happy they were there, I did […]
