Christmas was always my favourite time of the year – until I found myself facing Christmas as a sole parent in 2016.
Five years on, I can look back from a new perspective where
the grief has healed and the loss no longer stings. We have settled in to our
new normal, and can reminisce about our awesome Christmases as a “whole family”
without an ache.
But I remember that first Christmas and my heart goes out to
those of you who are facing your own first Christmas after a devastating loss.