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To My Beloved on the Day Our Son Breathed His Last Breath

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If I could go back and write a letter to my husband on the day our son took his last breath and tell him how he could love me best during the years that would follow, it would read something like this….. My Beloved………………………….. ————————————————————————– Read full post on my new site: http://thehealingbreath.org/2017/02/15/to-my-beloved-on-the-day-our-son-breathed-his-last-breath/ One of these… Continue reading To My Beloved on the Day Our Son Breathed His Last Breath

Child Loss · Crazy Good Grief · Grief · Healing · Mattie · Waves of Grief

Still Standing After Two Years

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Originally posted at Still Standing Magazine On August 22nd at 2:00am I tucked three of my four youngest children in bed, watched my teenagers close their bedroom doors, and walked into an empty bedroom where a little boy should have been sound asleep, but his body was in a hospital morgue. I walked to my… Continue reading Still Standing After Two Years

Child Loss · Crazy Good Grief · Grief · Healing · Mattie · Special Needs Education

Back to School and the Grieving Heart

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As I flip the calendar each year to August, my stomach drops. Mattie died on August 21, 2014. School started the next week, though our lives did not carry on as normal. So for the past two years, the back to school swirl is a bit muddled for me. It is muddled with memories of… Continue reading Back to School and the Grieving Heart