We’ve been involved with helping raise awareness for Action Medical Research since Jessica was four. It’s a charity that is very close to our hearts as they are dedicated to funding research into medical conditions affecting children. Some of the projects they’ve funded have been specifically to improve treatments for children with hypoplastic left heart… Read More
When I look at my life as a parent, it is very sharply divided into two. Life when Jessica was here with us, and life after losing Jessica. There is a huge chasm between the two lives that marks the moment Jessica died. A life before we knew the agonising pain of child loss, and… Read More
September has been an emotional month with the first day of the new school year falling on what would have been Jessica’s 11th birthday. She would have been very excited at her little brother starting school on her birthday. I now have two children at school, two sets of school uniform to lay out in… Read More
Darling Jessica, Today is your 11th birthday. A day that should have started with you waking early to open cards and presents before getting ready for school. You would have been starting in year 6 today and no doubt would have been excited that your baby brother was starting school for the first time. I’m… Read More
The other day, I was having a little bit of a battle with Sophie over her home learning. Just one of those ordinary everyday moments of family life. Not something that I would have expected to have been a big grief trigger. But then I remembered doing home schooling with Jessica after her surgery and… Read More
Grief is something that many people struggle to know how to react to. When someone you know loses someone they love, it can be hard to know what to do or say. Death is often a bit of a taboo subject, and many people feel awkward when trying to console someone who is bereaved. In… Read More
April has been quite a full-on month, emotionally and activity-wise. The build up to the anniversary of Jessica’s death on 14th April is always a hard time, marking yet another year without our beautiful big girl, another year further away from our life with her. Four years without our beautiful Jessica. Sometimes it feels impossible… Read More