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

How to Include a Deceased Grandparent in Your Child's Christmas Traditions

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.

The easiest way to keep a grandparent who died part of your child's Christmas is to give your kid something to do with them: hang their ornament, stir their cookie dough, hear one short story about them by the tree. Kids connect through their hands, so small and repeatable works better than big and solemn, even for a grandparent they never got to meet.