'Behind the Smile'

I try to keep this blog as a place for me, my feelings and my thoughts, but every so often I encounter a poem or a post written by another grieving mother that captures the grief we share in a way that I sometimes struggle to.

Putting my grief into words isn't always easy because, well, quite frankly it's so complicated sometimes I just don't know how to articulate things I feel or experience as a bereaved mother. So that's why I wanted to share this poem... I didn't write it, but some days I live it.

Please click and read.

"Behind the Smile" by Franchesca - Handprints from Heaven

There's the smile...

And there's the missing piece of my heart ...

(Pictures taken today from the trip I took to Panama City Beach with my mom - more to come on that later. :) )