Children and grief

My son “Bug” is a very sensitive soul. He is six and he is precious. Today, he was brought to absolute hysterical tears over a Budweiser commercial. If you’ve seen it, you know which one I’m about to mention. The puppy and the horse? Poor...

I Need You to Know { Grieving Mother }

Sentiments from a Grieving Mother   I need you to know that I am not OK. I will never be OK. But I am different. I live in a new reality. I don’t need sympathy. I don’t need looks of pity. I do need understanding. I need YOU to understand that I am...

What to say (and NOT say) when someone has lost a baby

This is one of my most popular posts on my personal blog No Holding Back. I continue to receive people to my blog who are searching things like “words when someone loses a baby.” It’s something we all struggle with. Even I, having lost a baby myself,...

Tiny Angel… We Honor You

My husband and I have always said that in a way, if we had to lose a child, our situation was the best case scenario. We knew she was so sick from 20 weeks in the pregnancy. We knew she had little to no chance of survival if born alive. We had time to prepare...