Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26 Kelsey Cecil 10/19/26

Becoming the Home for the Holidays When Your Parents Are Gone

Name: Grieving My Parents by Finishing My Mom's Children's Book
Uploaded: 2026-10-11T15:48:12+00:00
Description: Kelsey Lizee Cecil on losing both parents and publishing Rally Takes the Train, the children's book her mom always wanted to write.

Facing the holidays without parents as an adult often means the role they held lands on you. You become the place people gather and the keeper of the traditions, sometimes by choice and sometimes by default. You can carry that role well without carrying all of it, and you're allowed to grieve while you do.