Tomorrow is Rachelle’s birthday. I got her a nice birthday card, chocolate cake and cookie dough ice cream, red star ear rings, a gift certificate to her favorite hair salon (at her request), fresh yellow and pink flowers from the girls, fun red and pink balloons and a single red rose. Amidst the loss of […]

Tomorrow is Rachelle’s birthday. I got her a nice birthday card, chocolate cake and cookie dough ice cream, red star ear rings, a gift certificate to her favorite hair salon (at her request), fresh yellow and pink flowers from the girls, fun red and pink balloons and a single red rose. Amidst the loss of

It was just a rough day for me. God is near. “Deliver me, from all of the sadness….Deliver me” Song by David Crowder. Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent. 3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are

It was just a rough day for me. God is near. “Deliver me, from all of the sadness….Deliver me” Song by David Crowder. Psalm 22:2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, and am not silent. 3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One; you are

The emptiness and silence will get louder. Once my mom leaves, things will get darker. Right now, she’s here with us, sort of taking the place of my grandmother. She leaves next Wednesday. Then the hard work begins. It will get darker before it gets brighter. That’s how grief works. Tomorrow night is band rehearsal.

The emptiness and silence will get louder. Once my mom leaves, things will get darker. Right now, she’s here with us, sort of taking the place of my grandmother. She leaves next Wednesday. Then the hard work begins. It will get darker before it gets brighter. That’s how grief works. Tomorrow night is band rehearsal.

How does this feel? This loss of my grandmother. It feels like the music that has been playing is off. Hey, who turned off the music? It feels like a living being who walked among us is now gone. Like only her ghost is now around, yet not around. A living person, a woman full

How does this feel? This loss of my grandmother. It feels like the music that has been playing is off. Hey, who turned off the music? It feels like a living being who walked among us is now gone. Like only her ghost is now around, yet not around. A living person, a woman full

Today, I spoke to Irene and she said something that is very true. She said that in the same way that I took care of gramma for so long and now that I am free to do something else, that now I need to take care of Rachelle. My mom also has said similar things.

Today, I spoke to Irene and she said something that is very true. She said that in the same way that I took care of gramma for so long and now that I am free to do something else, that now I need to take care of Rachelle. My mom also has said similar things.