I looked on child-rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring it.-Rose Kennedy

“Sometimes miracles arrive so tiny
that we cannot feel the weight of them.
And yet we are still changed,
And we are blessed nonetheless”

“No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love."~Anonymous




There is no expiration date. Grief never fully goes away. That doesn’t have to mean you can’t and won’t live a happy and productive life. What it does mean is the love you shared with loved ones lost, doesn’t have an expiration date either.~Lynne Hughes
http://www.hellogrief.org/how-did-grief-get-an-expiration-date/


I stopped fighting to become the person I use to be and learned to accept that I will never be the same person again.  The pain caused by the death of a child never leaves you, but the sharpness of the pain can dull over time.~Kelly Farley
http://www.foreverinourheartsmadison.com/2012/04/guest-post-kelly-farley-grieving-dads.html


‎"Sometimes the hardest things in life are what make you the strongest." 

- Robert Tew

I love you my sweet forever-baby boy.

I will never stop wondering why you had to go.
I will never stop feeling grateful to have had you to love.

‎"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."
-Agatha Christie

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'~John Greenleaf Whittier

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.~ Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks

The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.
--- John Harricharan

To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
---Erich Fromm


‎"When you have a child, your instinct is to protect them; when you lose a child, your instinct is to protect their memory." ~ Unknown~

I've loved my child right from the start,
A feeling that's filled my entire heart.
I went through the labor and suffered the pain,
For many long hours with nothing to gain.

I've spent sleepless nights being awake,
Though it's been a while my arms they still ache.
I've sat and I've wondered of how she would grow,
The love of my family that she'd come to know.

The sound of her voice as she learns to talk,
Watching her steps as she tries to walk.
I have a child that I really love so,
I am her mother yet nobody knows.

I've spent all these months feeling her grow,
I've lived through it all and have nothing to show.
I don't get invited to chat with young mothers,
Because I don't have a baby like all of the others.

I've got some stretch marks that I'd like to hide,
but I don't have a pram with a baby inside.
The people I've known for so many years,
Avoid me now, which adds to my tears.

I don't know how long I'll be feeling like this,
But one thing I know, my baby I miss.
When Mother's day comes it will be very hard,
I won't have any flowers, not even a card.

And just because she's not here with me,
I still have a daughter I wish I could see.
But one thing I know and this is for sure,
I'll be her mother forevermore!

-Author Unknown