Friday, June 14, 2019

Mama lets go...of people in the village

It's been a year of loss. There's no two-ways about it. Mostly people that have been staples in our daily or at the very least, weekly, lives. It took me a long time to grapple with each one, and I went radio-silent because loss is hard for me.

  • I left a job where I had several good friends that I saw daily and had shared my life with for 4 years! 
  • Some of our dearest friends moved to the east coast. 
  • K left his classroom of 3 years (with the same teacher, in a mixed-age class). 
  • Several really close buddies of K (and their families) left our school.
  • We recently lost a young nephew of J's to a tragic car accident. 
  • K's current teacher is moving away next year.
  • We're slowly clearing out our house to sell it (and hopefully build a new one right behind it).
Just to name a few losses in the last 12 months. :S

We just watched Won't You Be My Neighbor (Mr. Rogers...) documentary and to say that that loss was profound for both J and I, is an understatement.

So here I am. Swimming in the sea of loss. It feels overwhelming, actually.

Kalev

Kalev
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