One Pink Balloon

For the past 7 Octobers, I have participated in a Capture Your Grief project created by Carly Marie Dudley of The Carly-Marie Project Heal a...

Our usual birthday tradition has been family photos at Kenley's tree.   However, a few weeks before Kenley's birthday, my wonderful ...

Dear Kenley, Happy Birthday, baby girl!   You are three years old today.   Three!  It's so hard to believe so much time has passed s...

Today, three of my friends are upset because their Facebook posts about their children have been met with comments of sympathy or misunderst...

Many people have asked me over the course of the last week or so, "Is her birthday this year easier than last year?" It's a ...

What do you do with two years of grief? How do you package it into a carefully wrapped birthday present? I have tried - and failed - to wr...

Several months ago, I installed the Timehop app. For anyone in the dark, Timehop accesses any Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter posts for ...

February has never been my favorite month. Other than my dad's birthday, there really hasn't been anything in February that I have ...

Mothers who have lost a child often get lost in a vicious cycle as well. We want our child to be remembered, so we talk about them often. ...

You have forgotten. You live your life unfettered by her memory. Maybe you are reminded every once in a while. A blog post in your newsfe...

I can't even begin to tell you how much I am dreading Christmas.  If I could skip over the day completely - the week even - I would do i...

I am having a really difficult time dealing with Thanksgiving approaching.   Halloween was tough, as I had imagined for months the costumes ...