“I cried heavily last night, feeling Fathers’ Day approaching. I had an unexpected sadness that I “didn’t have my dad to text anymore.” So here’s what I want to text you today, Daddy: In my study of grief, I’ve learned that it’s important to neither enshrine nor bedevil our lost ones. So I am cautious not to let my grief pause too long on your Sports Illustrated cover, your baseball cards, your nasty off-speed stuff, your complete games, your sports legacy things,” she wrote.
“Also, I no longer linger on the anger associated with the accident that left you alive but not the same: the missed events, the mistakes, the imperfect moments. Instead, I will remember the things that are uniquely you. I will smile as I remember how loved I felt by you. I will laugh every time I see croutons in my salad, hearing your voice call them “dead bread” in my head. I will never judge a pitcher because he has a “funky delivery” because that’s “tired” and only lazy scouts use that description,” she continued. “I will tell my daughter she is smart, because you taught me that being smart is more important than being pretty. I’ll feel pride when I see my girl “turn on the jets” when she runs, because you told me that “Speed is God-given, and you can’t teach it, only optimize it.” I will usually like dogs more than their owners, I’ll prefer raunchy standup to slapstick humor, and I’ll respect a hard earned walk more than a first pitch home run.”
She added, “Yes, I’ll remember the things that are uniquely you, and how our relationship was messy and complicated and beautiful. I’ll never get tired of hearing stories about you and your people will always be my people. I love you, I miss you, and I know you did your best. Happy Fathers Day, Daddy. I wouldn’t trade you for any other.”
Matt’s death comes nearly a month after Kara and her husband Kyle Bosworth‘s newborn son died on after experiencing “shoulder dystocia and a compressed umbilical cord.”
“He joined our Heavenly Father and will live forever in the hearts of his loving parents, his adoring sister, and those that received his life-saving gifts,” she wrote via Instagram at the time. “May his legacy shine in the form of lifetimes aplenty — lives filled with laughter, compassion, energy, love, and most of all gratitude. May it be said that McCoy Casey Bosworth left this world in a better place, for a better place …. that he made an impact … that he was an answered prayer … that he was a hero.”
Keough reflected on the loss of her baby on April 27 in an emotional Instagram post, which featured a photo of the couple holding onto their newborn shortly after his birth.
“You would have been 3 weeks old today,” she wrote. “You would be ‘waking up’ and showing us more of you. I would be getting the hang of being a mom of two. My milk would be regulating to your schedule. Your sister would be asking questions about your belly button and you would have peed on her at least once by now.”
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