My daughter raced in her first ever swim meet. She was the girl who stopped midway to fix her goggles, the one who was a full length of a pool behind the other swimmers. My daughter was the one that the crowd cheered for, not for winning a race, but because she was the last one in the pool. As …
surviving triplet
A Message To Heaven: You Are Going To Be Okay
I spotted the piece of paper from the other side of the room. A page ripped from my daughter’s notebook, tucked underneath two hearts, the urns of our two children who died. I unfolded the paper and read the note through a cloud of tears. “Dear Parker and Abby, You are going to be okay. Love …
This picture. It’s all I have of my daughter who died.
This picture. It’s all I have of my daughter who died. No videos, no precious pictures of her tiny feet or even a picture with her triplet siblings. For those us who have faced the unbearable experience of child loss, this is our reality. We are given tangible keepsakes; the footprints, the tiny …