Joseph, In all the years I have sat down to write your birthday letter, this year is probably the hardest. It’s taken me the longest time to write it and if truth be told, I almost didn’t write it at all. Eighteen. A whole childhood without you, a whole lifetime I have never know, a…
Joseph, I’ve sat here for such a long time staring at a blank screen, wondering how to find possibly find the words to write your birthday letter this year when there are no tales from your sixteenth year, no anecdotes of embarrassing incidents to look back on, no photographs of you and your siblings, albeit…
Joseph, This year I’m writing your birthday letter on the long drive down to France, painfully aware of the missing face in the back seat of the car or wondering if perhaps this year you would have chose to stay at home with Lewis and get up to all kinds of mischief together. I’d give…
As many of you know, our journey to parenthood hasn’t been easy and over the last eighteen years we have been through more than our fair share of heartache. Growing up I always knew I wanted to be a Mother and naively assumed that when the time was right, it would happen very naturally for…
So here we are, our sixteenth Baby Loss Awareness week since Joseph came into the world and, although I will always champion those who raise awareness, and strive so hard to do the same, this year words fail me. In all honesty I feel as though I have lost my way in the Baby Loss…
Joseph, As I sit here writing this to you on the eve of your 15th birthday, basking in the warmth of a balmy summers evening in Wales, your brother and sisters running wild in a way which would make a teenage you roll your eyes in annoyance, I find myself wondering, for the millionth time,…