In this sprint to the finish line to launch a senior, I keep categorizing this life we live as a way to process. Today, I am thankful to see Kainehn’s life in the seats he has sat in. Particularly, in the car. Our family has always captured moments in the car… our drive time together […]
Come along grief, I’m still learning from you.
Meet one of my favorite things in the world. This is a cooker, welded by my dad in the late 80s, early 90s. He started cooking crawfish for my birthday when I was 15. I didn’t like crawfish at the time, but he would simply say ‘sometimes it’s about feedin’ people little’n’. To a spoiled […]
For the last 2 years, I’ve gotten a little sad around my birthday. Last year I was sad thinking about me, as a baby, in a hospital for 5 days before anyone ever picked me up. I found comfort in knowing I was loved and I belonged to someone during that time, but it made […]
Grief can be so overwhelming that it overstimulates every sense at once. Sometimes the colors of the world are too brilliant, light is too bright, and the noise around us invades our thoughts in the most intrusive way imaginable. Then, at the same time, the world can be void of all color. We can feel […]
It’s been 2 years since my mom passed away. I started a blog journey in 2019 and as many things in life, I got a little side tracked. Here’s what grief is still teaching me. Grief is a Toddler No matter how much we tune grief out, tell it to ‘hold it’, or pretend like […]
It All Counts 