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 […]
I love an epically awkward situation. I enjoy it SO much, I didn’t even ask anyone to go with me to pick up my mom’s ashes. I even remember getting in the car, cranking it, and saying ‘Let’s go pick up a body’, laughing because how many times do you get to say that?! I […]
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 […]
We may forget things, but grief does not.
It’s funny how some moments have no measurement and yet are completely unforgettable. Life got busy and I stopped blogging… but here we are 2 years away from the last time my mom and I had a coherent- ish conversation. The picture of the giant pile of leaves was taken in Sepember 2018 because it […]
Finals and life happened. So as we all do, grief was placed on the back burner. Milestones have been flying by accompanied by two kids who miss their Nana dearly. Now that the pace is somewhat manageable. Here’s a couple of surprises that grief taught me about me. 1. There is healing in hearing your […]
It All Counts 