It was nice when people…

- Gave us gift cards so getting and paying for food wasn’t an issue
- Making us meals, Grace still had to recover from delivery
- Gave to us financially for the funeral
- For closer friends: just asking us what we needed, having us over
- Close parents: dad helped me with funeral arrangements
- Close parents: graces parents came and just helped us day to day
- Other moms: Becca and Jackie invited grace to Powell gardens, seeing beautiful things after something awful happened
- Kelly Douglas called grace and asked her what happened and asked her questions like whether she was getting outside and eating, etc that helped grace do some practical things that were good
 
Good things we did…

- Reading scripture at every meal, when we woke up and went to sleep
- Even though it felt strange, getting back to normal things like yard work
- I healed faster than Grace and it was really helpful for Grace when I told her that I wanted her to tell me how she was feeling and to communicate with me, otherwise Grace was feeling like there was distance growing between us that might never have been fixed