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

The First Christmas Without Mom or Dad: How to Get Through It, One Hour at a Time

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.

You get through the first Christmas without your mom or dad by deciding ahead of time what this year will look like, then planning for the few hardest hours instead of the whole day. It doesn't have to feel like Christmas, and it doesn't even have to be good. It only has to be survivable, and it will be.