Tag Archives: mother

Tears Come With Joy and Sorrow

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Greet Grief

I visit my first husband’s grave to tell him that our son is getting married and I tear up. And when I see our daughter in her wedding gown for the first time, the same thing happens. Two children getting … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, family, grandparents, grieving, Life's Losses, My story, parents, Relationships, Transitions, Uncategorized | Tagged celebration, daughter, family, funerals, joy, life, Loss, losses, matriarch, memories, mother, son, sorrow, tears, truth, wedding | 2 Comments

Living After A Child Dies

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Greet Grief

Life is risky. It isn’t fair. No one is safe and no one is ever given a card marked, “nothing bad will ever happen to me.” Continue reading →

Posted in Bereavement, death, Grief, grieving, Loss of a child, Parenting, Uncategorized | Tagged addiction, cancer, child, death, grief, grieving, hero, Loss, mother, parents | 4 Comments

Forever Young – Grieving the Passage of Time

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Greet Grief

I see the picture of the three of us. Framed in silver, it sits on the marble-top console table that had been my grandmother’s. I mention the picture when it catches my eye as I sit in my mother’s living … Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, death, Faith, family, Grief, grieving, My story, parents, Spirituality, Uncategorized | Tagged ageing, Bob Dylan, Christian, Christianity, death, Eternal Life, faith, fears, Forever Young, God, hope, mortality, mother, parent | 6 Comments