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

Home for the Holidays Hits Different When Your Parents Are Dead

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.

Home for the holidays without parents hurts because the whole season assumes you still have a home with parents in it, so every ad, song and travel story names exactly what you lost. Home can become something new, built from the people, places and rituals you choose. It just takes a few Decembers to feel like home.