Happy wedding day, niece. May the marriage be long, kind, and a little funny most of the time.
New Wishes
A handful of wishes pulled from the cabinet this morning. Pick one up — copy, save it to your pinboard, or send it on.
Congrats on the wedding. May your home always be the one with music, with food, and with the family welcome whenever life is loud.
Wedding wishes for my niece and the partner who became part of the family today. The seat is yours. The love is permanent. The marriage is yours to build. Off you go.
Thinking of you and your family this Thanksgiving. The empty chair is a real thing. So is the love that put a person in it for so long.
Wishing your family a gentle Thanksgiving. The first one after a loss is its own kind of heavy. There's no script.
Thanksgiving thoughts for your family. Grief and gratitude can share a table. Both are allowed to be there.
What are we writing today?
Cabinets sorted by occasion. Open one — pages are arranged by warmth, not algorithm.
- Anniversary
- Baby
- Belated
- Best
- Birthday
- Boy
- Boyfriend
- Christian
- Christmas
- Congratulation
- Diwali
- Easter
- Eid Mubarak
- Engagement
- Farewell
- Fathers Day
- Friendship
- Funny
- Get Well
- Girl
- Girlfriend
- Good Morning
- Good Night
- Graduation
- Hanukkah
- Heart Touching
- Holiday
- Invitation
- Job
- Love
- Miss You
- Mothers Day
- New Year
- Recovery
- Retirement
- Romantic
- Thank You
- Thanksgiving
- Wedding
- Well
- Women's Day
- Sympathy
- Valentine's Day
- Halloween
- Veterans Day
Holding your family in mind this Thanksgiving. The day will be hard. You don't have to pretend otherwise.
Wishing your family a Thanksgiving with people who let you be exactly as quiet, as tearful, or as okay as you each need to be.
Thanksgiving wish: that the memories of your loved one feel close today, not just sharp.
Sending your family love this Thanksgiving. Whatever the day looks like, you're not facing it alone.
Thinking of you and yours. The day asks for gratitude. You're allowed to feel both grief and a little of it, at the same time.
Wishing your family a Thanksgiving where the love around you holds the weight you can't quite hold today.
Thanksgiving thoughts. The seat at the table they used to sit in is empty. The seat in your hearts they hold is not.
Sending warmth. The first holidays after a loss are the hardest. The second ones are not easier — they're just different. I'm thinking of your family through both.
Wishing you a Thanksgiving with the kind of company that knows when to talk and when to just sit with you.
Holding your family close today. The grief doesn't pause for the calendar. The love that caused it doesn't pause either.
Thanksgiving thoughts for a family who is doing harder math this year. The day will pass. The love will not.
Sending love. The table is set. The person is missed. Both are real, and both belong.
Wishing your family a Thanksgiving with people who knew your loved one too. Sharing the memory is sometimes the whole comfort.
Thanksgiving wish: that today you each find a small good moment between the harder ones.
Thinking of your family. The empty chair is loud. The love it represents is louder.
Sending warmth this Thanksgiving. The day is for what you have. Today you also have grief. Both count as part of the truth.
Wishing your family a quieter Thanksgiving if you need it, or a louder one if that helps. There's no wrong way to do this.
Thanksgiving thoughts for a family carrying the absence with them today. You are not alone in it.
Holding you all in my heart. The holiday will end. The love your family carries for them won't.