by Jeanette | December 12, 2025 | Healing Journey, Kait's Comfort Kits, Mother Daughter
Today would have been Kait’s 31st birthday. Losing her brought my world to a complete halt – everything stopped, and I couldn’t imagine ever rising up again. I stopped caring about the future, about life, and even about me. Grief didn’t just break me open...
by Jeanette | June 23, 2024 | Healing Journey, Mother Daughter
Welcome to Episode 26 in my 2024 Monday Music Matters “Song-A-Week” series of stories in memory and in honour of my daughter, Kait This week I’d like to feature a song that I recorded for Kait called “By My Side”. I had actually written it for a friend who lost a...
by Jeanette | January 22, 2024 | Children's Songs, Mother Daughter
Artwork by Jessica Bell and her 2 sons, Aiden, 11 and Isaac, 8 Welcome to Episode 4 in my 2024 Monday Music Matters “Song-A-Week” series of songs and stories in memory & in honour of my daughter, Kait. Song link: Lalaby Waltz You might be asking yourself what is...
by Jeanette | January 8, 2024 | Children's Songs, Kait's Comfort Kits, Mother Daughter
Welcome to episode 2 in my 2024 Monday Music Matters series of stories in memory and in honour of my daughter, Kait. Feel free to read the first story last week about the Swahilian song, “Malaika”. It gives you a bit of a background story of why I embarked on...
by Jeanette | January 1, 2024 | Healing Journey, Kait's Comfort Kits, Mother Daughter
Happy New Year 2024! January 1st is a day of resolutions earnestly made but too often self-disappointedly not kept. Our spirit is willing but it has a short attention span. Every year I say to myself: “OK as of today I am going to eat better, exercise more, finish...
by Jeanette | May 12, 2023 | Mother Daughter
A Song for Kait (and for those of you missing a special someone) I don’t know just what to sayI don’t know just what to doI just want to be with youWish you were here by my side I just want to hold your handI just want to touch your cheekBut I can’t find the words to...
