Motherhood
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Theo becomes a big brother by instinct, tending his little sisters with the easy love of a child who never needed to be taught how to care.
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Before the children wake and the house fills with need, a few quiet minutes become enough room to hear herself again.
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Some people arrive like seasons; this is for the one who stayed through grief, hospital rooms, silence, and everything that followed.
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A letter celebrating Gabriella’s observant little spirit and the quiet wisdom she has carried from the very beginning.
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A late-night smoke does not promise to fix grief or erase hard realities; it simply offers a little honest quiet.
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A letter to Isabella, whose first cry stitched something back together in a mother who did not realize she was still broken.
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A letter to Theo, the rainbow boy whose joy arrived without replacing grief and reminded a wounded heart how to hold sunlight again.
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A mother writes to the daughter she held for only hours, imagining the girl she might have become and loving her through every unanswered question.
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A letter to the boy who first made her a mother, carrying years of ordinary memories, fierce love, and all the things no photograph can hold.
Between Bruises & Blooms 