Posts Tagged ‘keepsake’
Let Loss Guide Your Parenting
By: Shannon Duke As I write this post, I just finished up the day packing up items from Gracyn’s 1st birthday party. It was a great day filled with a hard’s day work of set-up, great music, delicious cupcakes, and wonderful friends. As I savored the time with those I cherished most, I couldn’t help…
Read MoreA Piece of My Heart Lives in Heaven
By: Shannon Duke When I think about keepsakes, it reminds me of the movie Inside Out. In this movie, we learn Sadness embraced the blues because it was often followed by love from family and friends. I hope you have a treasure or two that you can keep in honor of your angel baby. It…
Read MorePriceless Keepsakes
By: Julie Linck Memories are what exist after a loved one dies. For our precious babies, this is what we grieve the most. We are robbed of the opportunity to create memories and experiences together with our child. So how can we find ways to hold onto this sweet life that was taken much too…
Read MoreProof of Life
By: Brooke Taylor Duckworth In a cedar lined dresser drawer in my bedroom, I keep a purple box the closes with a ribbon tie. It contains an impossibly tiny nightie and a sweet little hat that looks like it would fit a doll. These are the clothes my daughter Eliza wore in the hospital, after…
Read MoreBereaved Mother’s Day Gifts
Bereaved Mother’s Day gifts are very special. These are unique mementos given to honor the bereaved mothers of children who are gone too soon. Top Left: I have a matching necklace and earring set with Harlan’s birthstone which is also mine and his dad’s birthstone. I got the grandmas bar necklaces with his name and…
Read MoreSupport, Healing, Hope and the Comfort Cub
Support, Healing and Hope -these are all of the things I hoped to bring to a grieving mother when I created the world’s very first weighted therapeutic teddy bear called The Comfort Cub back in 1999. When I was six months pregnant I got the devastating news that the beautiful baby boy I was carrying…
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