Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Can't Get Over It

Not just the loss of my boys, but the feeling that I'm still incomplete.  Two pieces of myself are now missing, never to be replaced.   I get R down for "quiet time" and though I like the ease of getting one child down, I still feel "gone".  Parts of me are elsewhere.  I think every day of what it would be like having more kids, and I can't seem to get past the what-ifs.  What if we'd had all three boys here, how much fun would that be?  I like to think that no matter how stressed I got, I'd know how blessed I was to have them.  Now I think what if we don't have any more?  What if we do?  What will our life be like?  I want to let go and let God, but there's that human part required for procreation and the desire or lack therof to do so.  I don't know for certain what our future will be, but I know I must first be content with where I am, or at least accept it as fact, and only then can I begin to really move forward.  I'm not moving on, and I'm not having "another" child.  I am still a bereaved mother, and I will not be able to replace those boys.  I may have a "second child in the house" but that is something that time must tell.  A good friend said that both parents must be in a good place to be able to have more or another.  We're not there together as we should be yet.  Maybe someday.    What sparked this today?  Seeing a movie and having lunch with two friends that both have 4 kids.  All I keep track of is one. 

3 comments:

  1. I have no words to bring comfort, only (((hugs))).

    Grief is something you can't get over, only go through...

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  2. Oh I know I'll never get over it; I just yearn for a healthier point in my grief, and for my husband to share in that healthy point. I have good days and I have bad days, just as any other blm does. Thank you for your comment.

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  3. ((hugs)) yes significant members of our family will always be missing. We will always yearn to be with them :'(

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