Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
Like a bull loose in a china shop, after a child dies everything gets trashed and broken and life is chaos. It takes a long time to get everything back in order, and even when things are mostly put back together, nothing is in exactly the same place. Some valuable ...
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
The relentless march of time. That's how I think of it sometimes. We're already to what would have been Kevin's 4th birthday, and I wonder how a year and a half could have gone by so fast. On his last birthday, it was only 6 months after he died and ...
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Thursday, August 13th, 2009
On July 18th, Kevin's little sister Ava Marie was born.
I wish he could have met her, because she is every bit as cute as he was. He probably would have loved being a big brother. He would have been almost 4 years old now, and I imagine him having big ...
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
I've been meaning to write an update for a few weeks but just haven't taken the time to do so... A few weeks ago we took on the inevitable task of cleaning out Kevin's room. We knew it had to be done before the baby was born, but ...
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Friday, May 1st, 2009
I was talking to Dawn tonight about what was going on in our life exactly a year ago, how the night he died unfolded by the hour, what we were doing and how we were feeling at different times. A short time after Kevin died I wrote down my memories ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
I’ve been writing pieces of this post for months, actually. When I think about what to write – especially at times like the one year mark – I think it’s so easy to be wordy and trite. I’ve written many things and then erased them. The truth is that it’s ...
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Sunday, April 26th, 2009
When the flier came in the mail, I was sure we would not go. Large groups of people are not generally my thing. I read it anyway and thought about it for a few days. If reading the line about bringing something of your child's to share reduced me to ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
As the year anniversary of Kevin's death approaches I have been thinking about my lack of posts on this site. I have left most of that up to Matt. He is a more eloquent writer than I - he seems to put his feelings into words with a skill that ...
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Saturday, April 11th, 2009
Easter was the last holiday we got to spend with Kevin. And now it's here again, which means we've gone through all the "firsts" - as far as holidays go - without him. What I remember about Easter last year was him wandering around looking for eggs, not really ...
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Today marks 9 months since Kevin died. I continue to write down my personal thoughts, and Dawn thought I should post some of it here too.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Sand Castles
The last time I was at Emily's therapist, she asked me to tell her a little more about Kevin. I showed ...
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