This week it will be six years since I started my blog. What started as a way to document my triplet pregnancy turned into a lifeline of healing for me and has opened more doors and brought in more friendships than I could have ever imagined. When I look back at all I have written there is a post that sums up so much of where we have been and where we are now. I wrote it years ago but could look at the pictures a million times over so I hope you don’t mind me sharing it a second time…
We watched her sweet life leave and willed our own to stay together.
There was so much to breathe for here.
Lives to cherish and nurture and beg to survive.
So we waited
and we dreamt
of the day they would be home
and our family would be together. Not whole, but together.
And we are good,
good plus one more.
We are brought down by grief but lifted up by laughter
and we are good.
We appreciate the quiet moments with space to breathe in the sorrow
and the loud ones with noise to drown it all out
and we are good.
We will never be full or whole or complete
but we are life and love and everything in between.
And we are good.
Thank you so much for spending even a moment of the last six years with us. I don’t know where I would be without this space.
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To those of us whose lives you’ve touched, you are so much more than good.
You are hope and beauty and love.
Always.
*tears* of both the sad and the joyful variety.
This is good indeed.
I just came across your blog. You are not alone and I want you to know that. My daughter was stillborn April 10, 2013. She was born 20 weeks due to Anencephaly. I went into premature labor after deciding to carry to term at 12 weeks. We were given the option to terminate but I wanted to meet the little one I was growing inside of me. My body “rejected” the pregnancy due to her fatal birth defect. All though the way our losses happened is different, our angels are up there playing together. I dont know when it gets easier. I cry everyday. How do you cope??
Things have definitely gotten easier. There was a time when I was in your place, soon after losing Hadley, that I didn’t know how I was going to get through the next day. Somehow you just keep going and it truly does get a little bit easier every day. It’s been over five years for us and I’m happier than I thought I could be. We still remember her and I think of her every single day but it’s not the crushing sadness that I felt in the early days. Just keep taking one day at a time and please email me if you ever need to talk. Thinking of you.
Thank you for sharing your space and beautiful words with us. So glad the I “met” you. It really does help to see/read that other bereaved parents “are good”. xoxo
So glad we met although I wish it were under different circumstances. Thank you for all of your support over the years.
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. This is a post to treasure forever.
Thank you so much!
So beautiful.
Goose bumps .. . As I read this “Home” by Dierks Bentley was playing on iHeartRadio …
(in short)
From the mountains high
To the wave crashed coast
There’s a way to find
Better days I know
It’s been a long hard ride
Got a ways to go
But this is still the place
That we all call home
Brave, gotta call it brave
To chase that dream across the sea
Names, and they signed their names
For something they believed
fitting … <3
Sniff, sniff… thank you for sharing this. <3
This is more than beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing your life with us for the past six years. xoxoxox
Thank you for always being such a great friend. Can you believe we’ve all been blogging together for so long?
Huge hugs to you. I am so glad that this space has been healing for you and am incredibly happy that I have found you here. xoxo
Beautiful photos. So heartbreaking and yet so hopeful.
Beautifully said. You don’t have to forget or move on. Hold on to what you have and love it all. Continued courage and strength to you!
Thank you so much Anna.
Six years. I just had my six year anniversary too. But your post was more beautiful. xxoo
This is amazing…as are you! Thanks for sharing it with us.
Oh Jessica, your photos are so beautiful, thank you for sharing! Love to you and your family!
Absolutely beautiful. This makes my heart hurt for you all the more. You inspire me to keep going, keep moving, because that is all we can do with life. I love your blog and your words. I am glad you share this journey. Thank you