I am again so thankful for all the love and support everyone has shown my family this week. I am still trying to fight back this illness, which is throwing a million gross symptoms at me (I woke up this morning with infected, swollen eyes). It’s been raining the last few days, which has matched…
Surfing Sunday 4.10
April 10th, 2016Comments: 9
This video on a walk with my Rigby and my Maddie…it makes me happy to see them, but so sad. The elephant on my chest is heavy tonight. If you can’t see the video above, click here. Hoping I will breathe a little easier tomorrow.
Seven Years Gone
April 7th, 2016Comments: 86
To say this week is crappy would be an understatement. My yearning for Madeline and Rigby is almost overwhelming. I’d forgotten how exhausting grief is, how it sucks your energy and fogs your mind. My body has given in and I’m sick with a high fever. As weird as it sounds, I’m almost grateful for…
There’s one thing that has been a balm on our hurting, and that’s little Liam. Annabel and James were both sick right after he was born, so they didn’t get to meet him until last week. The day after Rigby died, I took Annabel to meet Liam for the first time. We needed to get…
Our house is strangely quiet. The toys are still chattering, the kids are still rambunctious, but the house is missing the sounds made by its smallest resident. Her growls at the birds, her barks at the doorbell, the clicks of her paws as she followed me down the hallway – parts of the soundtrack of our daily…