Grief | Come Along
Come along grief, I’m still learning from you.
Category: loss
Crawfish, Me & The Welded Time Machine
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 […]
Grief | The Birthday Crasher
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 | The Comedian Part II
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 | And It’s Colors
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 […]
Grief | The Toddler
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 […]
Grief | The Last Ride of Freckles
We may forget things, but grief does not.
Grief | The Reminder
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 […]
Grief | The Back Burner
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 […]
Grief | The Neighbor
Today is another moment marker. One year ago today, Addie was baptized. It’s during joy-filled days that I am reminded that grief will always be our neighbor. It comes and goes, sometimes close by and sometimes so silent I forget it’s there. Aside from the obvious excited this anniversary brings, there is also a thread […]
It All Counts 