Lauren Flake - Grief & Texas
Is your heart a little broken this Mother’s Day? My last good visit with my mom was Mother’s Day 2013. My brother and I went to see our mother together in the nursing home. She had been living there for the last five years of her life. She was lost in the late stages of early […]
Need some jams to play while you honor Mom this weekend? I’ve compiled a list of my top seven favorite songs to celebrate motherhood this Mother’s Day. Add them to your playlist for a fancy Sunday brunch or a relaxing afternoon at home with the kids. I know they make my heart soar any day […]
Mother’s Day is filled with grief and hope for me. One Mother’s Day weekend, our family went fishing with my in laws and maternal grandmother on the Texas coast. Mother’s Day is a difficult time for my grandma and myself, since losing my mom to early onset Alzheimer’s disease. We thought that the trip would […]
Want to help your hubby pamper you or show your own mom you care this Mother’s Day? Here’s a Mother’s Day gift guide with some luxurious gift ideas. I attended a pre-screening of the cute, new Jennifer Aniston and Kate Hudson movie, Mother’s Day, with one of my best friends last night. SPOILER ALERT: Her […]
Mother’s Day is a bittersweet time for me and a difficult day for my grandmother. We mourn the woman who connects us, the mother who made me want to be a mother, the daughter who made her a mother. One year ago, on the day before Mother’s Day, my mother and I looked into each other’s eyes for the very last […]