tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post5057640572409708150..comments2023-10-30T09:14:27.703-07:00Comments on Mothering Nature: I'm backJackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13452150467051762515noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-10350117862796063102008-04-24T14:14:00.000-07:002008-04-24T14:14:00.000-07:00Hello Jackie,I'm also a stranger, and found your b...Hello Jackie,<BR/><BR/>I'm also a stranger, and found your blog through another just a week before your husband passed away. I have been touched again and again by the love so apparent in your family. I am on the opposite coast from you, *but* this great organization, The Children's Room in Boston at least has some things (books, websites, etc.) on their resource page that might be helpful as a starting point: http://www.childrensroom.org/resources.htm<BR/><BR/>I wish you more and more spontaneous genuine smiles.<BR/><BR/>MacKenzieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-77729763792579019522008-04-23T01:47:00.000-07:002008-04-23T01:47:00.000-07:00Welcome back Jackie. I will check with my mother-i...Welcome back Jackie. I will check with my mother-in-law, who is a teacher/librarian to see if she can recommend any books. I will email you her ideas. xxxRachaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573991998853561283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-29209263838132155822008-04-22T22:44:00.000-07:002008-04-22T22:44:00.000-07:00Hi Jackie, Please know that you are normal, everyt...Hi Jackie, Please know that you are normal, everything you feel is just as is should be for now and you are not alone! Resources that helped us were The Dougy Center www.dougy.org, the book, Tear Soup by Pat Schwiebert/Chuck DeKlyen and www.kidsaid.com. I hope these resources can help you too. Love, TracieTCallihanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05690022927093914273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-45473343749869452592008-04-22T19:14:00.000-07:002008-04-22T19:14:00.000-07:00Hello Jackie, you don't know me, I came across you...Hello Jackie, you don't know me, I came across you through Krista's blog. I am so so sorry for your loss. I am in Victoria, but I lived in Ladysmith for a number of years. I was seeing a therapist there who was wonderful. She did a lot of work with children and has an theraputic art and play room for them. Let me no if you are interested and I will email you her name and contact info. She was also very helpful with a sliding scale payment schedule. Good luck to you and yours, feel free to email me through my blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-31797272206419564982008-04-22T16:24:00.000-07:002008-04-22T16:24:00.000-07:00Hi Jackie, Sometimes Hospice offers services for c...Hi Jackie, <BR/><BR/>Sometimes Hospice offers services for children who are greiving. Counselling, play therapy. Not sure about your community, but it might be worth a shot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-56665539791018004992008-04-22T12:52:00.000-07:002008-04-22T12:52:00.000-07:00I'm sorry Jackie. I'm just so sorry for your loss....I'm sorry Jackie. I'm just so sorry for your loss. Your Jeff sounds like a one in a million kind of person, and the world is a worse place without him here.Aunt Beckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12146687582842259611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-51825366276751312742008-04-22T12:37:00.000-07:002008-04-22T12:37:00.000-07:00I hope you've found the book When Dinosaurs Die. I...I hope you've found the book <I>When Dinosaurs Die</I>. It is excellent - I loan it all the time to families with kids who have had someone close die.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/When-Dinosaurs-Die-Understanding-Families/dp/0316119555/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208892985&sr=8-1" REL="nofollow">Link to book info</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27694675.post-11354522308823237442008-04-22T11:25:00.000-07:002008-04-22T11:25:00.000-07:00Hi Jackie, I was touched by your bird post, and a...Hi Jackie, <BR/><BR/>I was touched by your bird post, and at the risk of sounding like a nut, I'd like to draw your attention to a book by William Wharton called Ever After. (He also wrote Birdy, which was made into a movie.) Ever AFter is the account of his life after his daughter and her husband and children were killed in a car crash. At the end of the book he tells of his strange encounter with a bird a year after the accident. He feels it was a visitation from her in some way. Wharton has a deep afinity for birds. (Check him out on amazon.com.) I think this event with the goldfinch is unusual and hope you take some comfort from it.<BR/><BR/>NancyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com