Category: Uncategorized

I have been thinking of you so much lately. Maybe moreso since Ashour and Max visited the other day. Maybe because it is summer and you should be in and out of the house, skateboarding, being with friends and learning to live your life with no school to start in September. Or maybe it is…

18 Months. Such a long time to not have you here. A long time to not speak to you and have you respond. I cannot say such a long time to not hear your voice as Austin sent me a video and in that video you are talking. Watching that video, hearing you speak, took…

On what should be the eve of your graduation from high school, I sit here alone and think of all the things that will never be. I am honoured that Yale Secondary is allowing me to attend the ceremony and that your memory will be alive and your life will be honoured. However, I am…

Where do I begin? Eighteen years you have been a part of my life, longer if we count the 41 weeks that I carried you and created your life. I cannot believe that I have not spent your last two birthdays with you, instead, I spend them thinking of you, weeping for you and sitting…

Today has been difficult. So far today has been the hardest one of the month and yet there is nothing significant on this date. I woke this morning to the above picture in my Facebook Memories and it took me back to the weekend in 2012 when we were just sitting together and watching a…

I am asked why I say the Angelversary of your death and not anniversary. I feel it is self explanatory – an anniversary is a celebratory event, how can your leaving be celebratory? So grieving parents use the term Angelversary as a special way to feel the love for their child who left too soon.…