Thanksgiving 2011 is forever etched in my memory as the day we lost our Baby J. So much sorrow. Then strangely within just a month’s time we experienced overwhelming joy finding out about Cashel! I was torn. Celebrating, sharing our news, but internally still breaking. As I planned for the arrival of our first born […]
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness: October 15, 2016
In October 1988, President Ronald Reagan declared October as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month saying, “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child, there isn’t a word to describe them.” […]
Pregnancy & Infant Loss Awareness: They remembered. I am changed.
This year I’m writing on Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day from a changed perspective. Each day and year that passes since we lost our “Baby J” on November 24, 2011 I have changed and become different. On this day in the last two years I wrote. I wrote a simple post in 2013 and a […]
Love, Loss, and Remembered Little Ones…
I was going to let today pass. I put on my necklace, that I wear almost daily and that was going to be it. My way to remember. My way to love. My way to miss. Then one of my favorite authors, who has also gone through 3 losses (2 miscarriages, and one was of […]