Repost from a while back, but it came actoss my feed this morning, so I assumed Leora was telling me someone needed to see it- Look how my little girl sparkles💖✨💫👑 I put my “50” tiara👸🏼on Leora’s urn after my party in December, and haven’t really paid it a lot of mind. I mean, I see it every time I walk in my bedroom, but when you see something all the time, you kind of stop SEEING it. Last night, I was getting ready to lay down, and I noticed how unusually sparkly it was. You could see all the colors twinkling ✨ Leora would have loved that! I sat and talked to her for a few minutes. As a parent griever, I’m super good at compartmentalizing. That’s how life goes on so we can function. She has her own headspace that I don’t visit all the time, because I’d want to die all the time. The Parkland shooting has dredged up a lot of those feelings for me, as I once again passed the school today. The memorial, the cops, kids, news people and visitors, paying their respects. I remember my own loss, but time has a way of being merciful with the actual intensity of the pain. I can watch it in my head - almost like it’s happening to someone else. 14 more sets of parents of teens have joined my club. Whenever I know there are new members, there’s a shift in the atmosphere... making room as they enter the worst club ever. It’s hard around here. I feel like in time I can do more good for them all, because I’m that person who can help later on, when everybody else’s life has gone back to normal. Just rambling, but there’s usually a reason my daughter grabs my attention, so maybe she’s setting some wheels in motion. She was always smarter than me😇 #leoralynn #princessleora #princess #grief #tiara #msdstrong #msd #neveragain #teenage #parentsofteens #grievingparents #griefsupport #parkland #healing #healingfromgrief #healingcoach #griefcoach #empathchick (at Coral Springs, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9R6l54hoHE/?igshid=310x9l1f56bv
