Burts Bees -- a product I started using during my pregnancy with Logan. I wanted something natural, safe. To this day, when I smell Burts Bees it takes me back to some of the happiest moments of my life.
Pumpkin - specifically candles. I love the smell of fall, and fall smells like pumpkins to me. The weeks leading up to Logan's birth the candles were burning. Even now, these candles are in my home. The candle I lit on October 15th was "pumpkin" scent.
Day 13: Signs
10:28 -- His birthday -- 10/28/10
The number 2 and 8 followed me throughout Logan's pregnancy. My mother's instinct told me it was his due date - February 8, 2011 (2/8/11). Little did I know that he'd be born on 10/28 instead. Ever since his birth the clock randomly seems to be on 10:28. I know time hasn't changed, only my perception of it, but I see the clock on the minute hand of 28 so very often and every time I think of Logan. Call it a coincidence, I call it a sign.
The Bump. A community. A resource.
At a time when I felt most alone and most isolated, I found a community of women who understood, supported, and encouraged me through every part of this journey so far. They may be "virtual" friends, but they are some of the best friends I've ever had. We are connected in ways that no one can understand unless they too walk this journey of being a loss parent. I am blessed to call them my friends. I am blessed to have found this community of women. I am blessed we live in a day where breaking the silence and coming together isn't limited by the community you live in or the people that walk in and out of your life on a daily basis. Without this community, I may have been lost in the depths of my grief forever.
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