From July, 2016

Today should have been your birth day my darling Thomas – by Simone

My little boy   Had everything gone according to plan, you would have been born today. It is very, very hard to get my head around the fact that this is no longer our journey. I yearn for what could have been, what would be happening today, for the excitement and miracle of life. I realise that I haven’t really written properly about you, your birth story. And I think about it all the time, obsessing about it, flashing back to it. So I thought writing about it might help me process a bit.   I found out I was…

10 months today my Belsie – by Simone

  My darling Belsie   Its been 10 whole months since you left us, and I still think of that day, almost obsessively. Playing it over and over again in my head, reliving each moment, tormenting myself a lot of the time.   I think of your beautiful smiling little face, the way rays of sunshine would literally beam from it, and I wonder how you would look now. I see your little friends progressing, developing, growing and changing and it makes me so very sad that I will never get to experience that with you. Its this deep, deep…

2 months today darling boy – by Simone

My darling little Thomas Its been 2 months today since you entered our world and then so tragically left it to join your sister. My heart is still so heavy, any small thing setting me off in floods of tears. I got a tattoo on the inside of my left wrist after your sister died so that I would always have her name and her memory emblazoned on me, always with me. And so I have done the same for you, on the inside of my right wrist. An image of a mother and child, 2 hearts joined always, with…