Hi Sweetheart, Today is Boxing Day. A day that you loved. In your eyes the last day of the Christmas period. Off round to Julie and Richards for food, presents, games and happiness. Yesterday would have been filled with the same at home. Instead of having you here we visited you at the crematorium. It's just so wrong and so very painful. You WERE Christmas... So childlike and innocent. Christmas was always such a magical time for you especially the run up to it with all the decorations and lights everywhere, carols and Christmas songs. Your eyes would be wide with awe and excitement. The fourth Christmas without you is just as painful as the first. You were such a huge part of Christmas and that part is now missing and cannot be filled. I love you with all my heart Dominic. I can't wait to be with you again. You belong with me. Forever...... Your Mummy..... Always. XxxxxX  Left at his grave

Dominic has now nearly been gone for 3 years. 3 years on 28th August. I'm still grieving and I always will be grieving. Each day's that he isn't here is another day longer since I last saw him and I miss him so very much. Every day that he's not here numerous things remind me of him....a record, a film, and the stupidest little things like a food item, a tree, an insect... pretty much everything and anything. At the moment I'm on holiday with my family and my sisters family on a farm near the coast. I can imagine Dominic wheeling himself around the beautiful gardens, going to see the animals, on the beach. I see him everywhere even though he's never been here. It's too painful to go back to places we've been with him. It's painful enough in new places without him. I spent every day with him sometimes a long time, sometimes part of the day and sometimes all day and night. He was my everything and I loved him completely from the day he was born. W...

I haven't updated for a long time this time.  I've been struggling a lot since Christmas really. I thought I was going to be carted off a few times in January and February and my second eldest has really struggled too. Now the sun has been out more, the flowers have started to appear and the birds are back and singing again. Dominic would have started going in the garden on warmer days and I would have been sitting out there with him cross stitching, doing a Puzzler or playing games on my phone. He would have been making his normal happy noises and I would have been reaching out to hold his hand occasionally or getting up to kiss his cheek or give him a drink. Someone asked not long ago if I've thought about going to a psychic. I know a lot of people who have when they have lost someone special to them, including a son or daughter. This isn't the first time it's been mentioned to me and I have thought about it. But Dominic couldn't communicate well. What woul...

This has taken a long time to get around to writing mainly because my thoughts and feelings are just so mixed up. Life seems to be lived in a constant daze. It feels like I'm not quite here. My concentration is affected added to which I hate January/February. This start of the new year has been extra hard maybe because I worked through Christmas and New Year and maybe because of some very difficult times at the beginning of the last two years and the fear of the same thing happening again. Mainly its just missing Dominic and feeling extra sad on top of that because of the above. Last night in bed I stared at the screen saver on my phone which is, of course, one of my many favourite photos of Dominic. That boy sure took a good picture. I found myself scrutinising his face... his deep,gentle eyes, his curly hair, his soft cheeks, the crease of his forehead caused by years of looking puzzled about everything, his chicken pox scar over the right of his top lip,the scar on his rig...

Well.... August and September have passed and with them has gone all the painful anniversaries and Dominics 'forever 25' birthday. Despite that I still have a constant lump in the back of my throat and tears are constantly just behind my eyes waiting to fall. Everything around me wherever I am is a painful reminder of what was but is no more. I know I will never willingly go North/North East of Norwich again. I find it hard going to Norwich to see Emily. There are too many painful memories. It's doubtful that I will ever go to any Centerparcs again. Again too many painful memories despite these ones being happier. I will never again holiday in Eastbourne, Bognor or Weymouth and there are a few other places I will avoid. These places were special because Dominic was there and now he won't be. The gap is just too large without him. I look at all the photos of my children and think of how they were at the age they were in the photos. In Dominics photos, especially the b...

  We are nearly there Dominic. 😔 Nearly at the two year anniversary of the day you left me and what would have been your 27th Birthday. Every day this month is a reminder of what happened two years ago. It's a countdown and my eyes have tears behind them at all times... even when I'm talking or if I laugh. On the day that changed my life when you crashed and the doctors rushed in and I had to leave the room, one of the doctors came out of the room and told me that you were at the end of your life... that you wouldn't see the next day. I went back into your room hearing you saying 'Mummy' and asked you if you were OK sobbing my heart out. You repeated ok back to me. I told you you were a good boy and I loved you and you peacefully closed your eyes and never opened them again.I cuddled and kissed you and held your hand and whispered to you please dont leave me. Jamie arrived at some point and then your Auntie Lynn... neither were prepared for what was happening in...

My Darling Dominic, These letters are so hard to start but once I do start I don't want to stop. It's the closest I feel to communicating with you these days... except when I talk to you at the crematorium. I had a 5 day break away on my own a month ago. I never go away alone like that and it was weird without you. Holidays and breaks always included you. The break was given to me by a charity because I'm a bereaved carer and I felt I needed time to grieve and think about you without upsetting or worrying anyone else. I took your photo with me and within half an hour of arriving I was in pieces like I hadn't been since just after you left this Earth. The following day was the same. I was in a really dark place and just ached for you. The next day I went out for my own sanity. I realised while I was there that being at home with our family has helped me cope. Looking out for your siblings and Jamie and seeing your Auntue Lynn gives me a reason for being here now and...