Doll Hat Nothing fancy, just a little something I threw together for my friend-nephew, for his new doll. Acrylic yarn. Should have made the circumference a tad bigger (it’s a bit snug) but otherwise, it’s just knitting and decreasing. Plus a pompom.
The NILMDTS Walk (Ohio)
The NILMDTS Walk (Ohio) We are participating in the NILMDTS Remembrance Walk in honor of our son Charlie Peacock Warner. We would love for you to join us – we’re team Tiger! If you cannot make it, you can still support us and future loss mamas and papas, and show honor to our baby,
Why All the Tigers?
National Zoo (Smithsonian) in Washington, D.C.They may or may not have a gift shop largely dedicated to tigers,and I may or may not have gone a little “wild”… Why All the Tigers? Dear Friends, You may have noticed that tigers come up in many of my posts. If you click on the menu symbol in
BLAAAAAH
BLAAAAAH No Motivation, No Get Up and Go Dear Friends, One of the stupidest and most frustrating “symptoms” of grief, for me and in my experience, is when I have days where doing anything seems like so much effort that it’s not worth it. Not quite to the scale of debilitating depression, because I do
NILMDTS Remembrance Walk, OH 2018
Dear Friend, I will be taking part in a walk to remember our baby, as part of the Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep (NILMDTS) annual walk, which is in June, actually just days after Charlie’s birthday. What this does is support the organization, which provides professional photographers on a pro
Heartbreak In My Stomach
(drawing credit: Sarah Warner, for MWAH2017) Dear Friends, There is a feeling I’d like to explain. For me, part of grief – not just sadness, missing Charlie, dashed hopes and dreams – is a truly visceral feeling. For me, emotion has always been tied to stomach aches. Not the kind you get with the flu,
Cuddly Yellow Blanket
Buttery Snuggle Blanket This is a blanket I started out just because I had a pretty yarn! It was soft, and I loved the yellow with little tufts of other colors. I only got 2 skeins, though, because it was in the clearance bin and that’s all there were. I probably could have started
By The Numbers
By the Numbers The Statistics of Baby Loss Hi Friends, This is going to be a brief explanation of the statistics of baby loss you may see floating around. Some are true, some are false, and most are simply a little misleading unless you hear where the numbers are from. I will be including
New Year’s Day, 2018
Happy New Year! … Right? A reflection on common holiday phrases I have seen some other loss mamas posting on Facebook about how they don’t like the phrase “Happy New Year”. I can fully understand that, since it sounds like the person is saying the year is happy. For me, though, they are wishing me
Santa Pook
? We were out getting a Christmas tree, tromping through the snowy tree field picking one out to cut, when hubby said that Pookie really needed a Santa hat. I agreed, and thought to myself that maybe I could pick one up at a dollar store. Well… I found some red fleece and an old