Remembering
October 20, 2015 at 9:36 pm | Posted in after death?, Jake, Love, Sawyer | 6 CommentsTags: child loss, death of a baby, Jake, life after loss, new not so normal, Sawyer, unexplainable, what i have learned in the 10 years since Jake died
For remembering Jake.
And many thanks for remembering Sawyer.
I am forever grateful to all who keep Jake’s and Sawyer’s memories alive.
Life goes on (as it should) but another one of the important lessons I have learned in the 10 years since Jake died is I am no longer the same person. Some call it their new normal. I do not think there is anything normal about outliving your child/children.
As a surviving parent I am left to make sense of the unexplainable. Some say that we all have purposes in life which we fulfill throughout our lifetimes. So does that mean that Jake and Sawyer just fulfilled their purpose very quickly and therefore they had very short lives?
I wonder what were their purposes? Are Evan and I supposed to help or continue their purposes? I may never know the answers to these questions but I do know that I want Jake and Sawyer to be remembered.
The other day there was a discussion in the back seat of our car about ages of the twins’ friends and their siblings. One of their friends has a brother who was born in September of 2009. Another friend has a little sister born in December of 2009. After we had dropped off their friends, Evan and I talked to the twins about their little brother, Sawyer, who was born in November of 2009.
Remembering
By Elizabeth Dent
Go ahead and mention my child,
The one that died, you know.
Don’t worry about hurting me further
The depth of my pain doesn’t show.
I’m already crying inside.
The tears that I try to hide.
I’m hurting when you just keep silent.
Pretending he didn’t exist.
I’d rather you mention my child.
Knowing that he has been missed.
You ask me how I was doing.
I say “pretty good” or “fine”.
But the healing is something ongoing.
I feel it will take a lifetime.
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A Mourning Mom 
thinking of your whole beautiful family. xo
Comment by Lisa Petrovich— October 20, 2015 #
those two angels are rarely out of my thoughts. i feel their little hands, and remembering diapering and washing sawyer. they touch my heart continuosly.
Comment by leslie— October 20, 2015 #
I will neve forget Jake the little fighter or Sawyer that beautiful, observant baby. He noticed everything at such a young age.
Comment by Patty— October 20, 2015 #
Thinking of you and all of the members of your beautiful family. We love you.
Comment by Daphne— October 21, 2015 #
Always thinking of all your family and I am not sure about what ‘normal’ is to begin with
Comment by Susan FB— October 22, 2015 #
Thinking of you my friend. I wish I could have met Jake and Sawyer.
Comment by Amy— October 22, 2015 #