In the last three months I’ve lost three people I love. All varying degrees of closeness but the one thing they all sum up to is grief. Heart-wrenching, bottom-belly sobbing, unavoidable grief. And do you know what’s extremely difficult to do when raising toddlers? Grieving. Parenting has a way of monopolizing opportunities to care for your own needs if you…
When we went cold-turkey in paci-town for both boys (all prayer offerings were so needed), in the midst of their tiny tears I realized it was their first real experience with grief. My husband and I had been talking about getting rid of paci’s for months so once we got home from a family trip to Orlando (cuz ain’t nobody…