National sibling day

Yesterday was #nationalsiblingday. It got me thinking of how much I wish I had a photo with them all together. How I wish they could all grow up together. My two living children wish these types of things too. They tell me how they wish they held him one more time. How they wish he [...]

Celebrating love

10 years ago I married my high school sweetheart, the man of my dreams, my best friend, my soul mate. The day after we got married I said to Adam, I want to do that again. He laughed and said something along to lines of “oh dear god” and we agreed right there on day [...]

A brother’s grief, 16 months on

The first word Ashton learnt to write was his own name. The second was his brother’s.  I had no idea he could write it until a remembrance event where he showed me the bamboo candle boat he decorated with Elliott’s name on it. “That’s so beautiful darling, who helped you with his name?”, I asked. [...]