She mothered with the love of twenty women. Her smile made you feel like you were a lifelong friend. Life was funnier when Rachel talked about it. I need to believe that today cancer died and her spirit was set free.
The tears fall on my fingers as I type this post and I pray for your brave man and little fairy girl as they begin a life without your hugs.
You filled Sienna with a lifetime of love in 8 tiny years. That will heal her as she grows up. By never giving up, you showed her the strength she already has in her soul. Your brave man will help her find it if she ever gets lost.
I would be so proud if I am even half the mother/friend/wife/person that you were, Rachel Anna. Every single day I see this lovely life more clearly because of you.
Goodnight, my beautiful friend. I hope I see you dancing in my dreams.
XO Rachel Anne
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So sorry for you loss. No child so young should be left without their momma.
So well said. I followed the story thanks to you.
Much strength to Sienna and Brave Man.
Love to all.
What an awful loss and what a lovely tribute.
Peace to you and yours.
Love to all. I was following Rachel’s blog. She was an amazing woman. If Ivan be half the person she is someday I am doing well. She radiated life while facing the most devastating outcome. Leaving her brave man and fairy girl for an unknown world.
I’m sorry for your loss, Rachel. The hole doesn’t get any smaller, but you do learn to live around it.
Sorry for your loss Rachel!!! I know how painful it is loose someone you love. I lost my father too, and I miss him everyday. But I know he will always look over me no matter where he is. :’( Take care. My deep condolences.
Even from afar, it is difficult to comprehend. Love xx
SO SO sorry for your loss. It has been a tough year of loss due to cancer and I pray you and the entire family find peach. Thinking of you.
~Nichol
Lovely. Respectful. Enduring. Hugs to you, Alec and Trio. XOXO
I am so sorry for your loss Rachel.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your friend. I have been reading her blog since you introduced it to us in yours. I’d been checking.it for updates everyday, but this morning, I somehow knew. I will keep her brave man and little fairy in my prayers. She was an amazing woman.
Lovely words for a beautiful friend. So sorry for your loss and I hope she dances in your dreams often.
Thankyou Rachel xx
Oh I’m so so so sorry for you… My dearest and most sincere sympathies Rachel. xx
i am so so sorry for your loss and for the loss her sweet man and little girl are coping with. i hope they are able to find strength in the stories and beauty of her life. xoxo
Sorry for your loss, her families loss and all that knew her. It saddens me deeply because I followed her blog because of you. Being a father myself it stings just little bit more to know that beautiful little girl will be without the most important person in her life. I hate cancer. She was a very beautiful lady and sure she had the character to match.
Beautiful tribute, Rachel. I’m so sorry for the loss… For you and her Loves.
I am sorry for your loss. What a beautiful tribute you have posted for your friend.
I am sorry for your loss. What a beautiful tribute you have posted for your friend.
a gorgeous tribute Rachel, brought tears to my eyes even though I don’t know her. So sorry xxx
Well I’m crying and I didn’t even know her. Beautifully said, Rachel. I’m so tired of cancer taking away parents. Big loves being sent from around the world to you, and to your friends littles. Big big loves.
I’m in tears
. So sorry
I’m in tears
. So sorry
I cried reading that. My love to her family at this horrible time. And Rachel, you will play a part of her daughter healing…those photos that you have taken will mend a little piece of her heart in time.
What a terrible loss. My heart goes out to her family and to you. Your words are beautiful.
She was truly incredible. So perfectly said. Heart breaking.
She was truly incredible. So perfectly said. Heart breaking.
I am so sad to hear this. What an inspiring woman.
Heart breaking, really.
Heart breaking, really.
Well said Rachel. I am glad I was able to catch up with Gary via email over the past 10 days. Ironically I distributed an electronic Christmas card in her honour yesterday. May we all keep a little bit of ‘The Brave Woman’ in our hearts. xx
Well said Rachel. xox
Well said Rachel. xox
Beautiful words Rachel.
Rachel was obviousy a beautiful woman, inside and out. Much love to all who knew her, but especially to her Brave Man and Fairy. There must be people countries over who are crying for them this morning xx
Oh I’m so sorry. Why does life have to be so unkind. It is just so sad when someone young with a beautiful family has to leave this world. All my prayers going to her husband, daughter, family and friends. It’s so unimagineable.
hugs, such sad news
Corrie
Devastated to read this and so grateful for my own life which I sometimes take for granted. Sometimes the worst things happen to the best people and she sounded like one of the best you could find.
I have been following Rachel’s blog since you introduced it to us too. I am surprised at how deeply it has affected me reading about the life of someone I have never met and never will – someone so far away. I’m sorry beyond words that she’s lost the battle she fought so bravely. I hope her family find a tiny bit of comfort knowing that people around the world who never knew Rachel will grieve for her in a small way. The brave man and the fairy are in my thoughts this Christmas and I hope they will find their way without her, eventually.
And I’m so sorry for you Rachel that you’ve lost someone you cared about. Sometimes life just sucks.
I, too, have been following Rachel’s blog since you introduced her. I am so sorry to hear that she passed away, and so close to the holiday. I will keep Sienna and the Brave Man in my thoughts during the coming weeks – she was such an amazing mom, that completely shone through in every single thing she did and wrote.
Cancer sucks.
I just read some of Rachel’s blog. Life is not fair in any way. Sorry for their and your loss.