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The Sunny Hunny Shop was created in honor of my daughter, Charlie 💛

Here, you’ll find thoughtful keepsakes and gifts for grieving families - pieces designed to help you say their name, remember them always, and tell their story.

06/02/2026

Got the credentials riiight here

06/01/2026

💛 FOURever Kind 💛

As Charlie’s 4th birthday approaches, I’ve been thinking a lot about the traditions we’ve created in her honor.

Since Charlie’s first heavenly birthday, we’ve celebrated her by spreading kindness. Each year, we’ve encouraged random acts of kindness as a way to send a little extra sunshine out into the world in her name.

I’ve also always known that Charlie’s birthday falls on Flag Day, but it wasn’t until recently that I connected the two.

Creating memorial flags has become such a huge part of my grief journey. What started as a way to honor Charlie became one of the many ways I’ve turned my pain into purpose. Every flag tells a story. Every flag represents a baby who is loved, remembered, and celebrated.

So this year, it felt fitting to combine two pieces of Charlie’s story - kindness and flags.

In honor of Charlie’s 4th birthday, I’d like to gift one family a custom memorial birthday flag.

The winner may choose a birthday flag currently available in the shop or a completely custom design created just for their child.

To enter:
☀️ Tell me your baby’s name and birthday in the comments.
☀️ Share this post so we can reach more families.

Swipe to the next slide for our annual kindness card if you’d like to join us in spreading a little extra kindness in Charlie’s honor this month.

I’ll choose one family on June 14th - Charlie’s birthday.

Because every baby deserves to be celebrated. Always.

05/31/2026

My chest can feel June approaching and all the weight it brings.
The last few days of things being normal before everything crashed down.

The counting down.
The replaying memories.
The pressure to make the month meaningful enough.
To celebrate enough.
To grieve enough.
To survive it gracefully enough.

It’s strange how your body remembers before your mind even catches up.

I can already feel the heaviness settling in my chest without even looking at the calendar. The ache of knowing another birthday is coming for the little girl who never got to stay. The quiet panic of wondering how four years can somehow feel like forever ago and yesterday at the exact same time.

June is beautiful.
Yellow flowers. Sunshine. Warm air.
And somehow it still feels unbearable.

I wish people understood that grief has seasons. And sometimes you can feel them approaching long before they arrive.

05/26/2026

In just 3 weeks, Charlie should be turning 4.

And honestly, the lead up is always the hardest part. The anticipatory grief. Trying to plan the perfect month, week, day. Carrying all of the love and pressure and sadness before the day even gets here.

I’m so torn this year.

Part of me wants to keep her birthday small and close. To protect it. To protect myself. To not give anyone the opportunity to let us down. To not wait and wonder who will show up and who won’t.

But the traditions we’ve created over the years have meant so much to us, too.

Do we still do the acts of kindness?
Do we collect books for her little free library?
Do we keep doing the things that make people say her name?

Or do we make it quieter this year?
Smaller. More private. More ours.

I think one of the hardest parts about grieving a baby years later is wondering if everyone else has quietly moved on while you’re still standing in the same place. Four years feels like forever and no time at all.

And maybe that’s what hurts the most - realizing the world keeps spinning while you’re still trying to carry someone who should be here growing up alongside it.

I don’t know what 4 is supposed to look like yet.

But I know I still love her with every single part of me.
And I know I still want the world to remember she was here.

What did you do for birthdays as the years went on?

05/26/2026

if not with her, then for her.

05/22/2026

you should just be home.

05/21/2026

Father’s Day can feel so complicated after loss.

So much of the focus naturally falls on grieving mothers - and while that support matters deeply, grieving fathers are so often carrying the weight quietly in the background. Supporting everyone else. Holding us together. Going back to work. Staying strong when they’re falling apart too.

They are fathers.
Even if their babies are not here.

The “your dad, always” collection was created for them - for the dads who should have had more time, more memories, more moments.

Available now in crewnecks, hoodies, and t-shirts, with the option to customize the sleeve with your baby’s name 🤍

And one more thing:
If you previously ordered from the “your mama, always” collection and would like the exact same name list placed on the back of your dad sweatshirt so they match, just leave a note in the personalization box at checkout and I’ll gladly make sure they match for you.

SAY THEIR NAME • REMEMBER THEM ALWAYS • TELL THEIR STORY

05/21/2026

I hated being alive so much I hated having to learn how to survive after the death of my child. I can’t sit here and say it gets better, but it gets different. Somehow, someway, you learn to live in a world without them. A world that has absolutely no idea how to support a life long griever. But you do. You do the damn thing.

05/19/2026

Death changes you. It just does. It changes your why and your how, and it makes you question every what if - even the what ifs you never knew existed.

On a day that was already hard - for myself, for obvious reasons - but also for my own mom, navigating the day without her mother while also watching her daughter try to make it through the day, we received a phone call that my uncle, her only sibling, had passed away.

It just changes you. It’s a terrifying reminder that terrible things happen to good people for absolutely no reason at all. That this life owes us nothing. That we need to cherish every single moment we have with the people we love, because they can be gone in a year, in a month, tomorrow, or in five minutes. And no matter how much we cherish those moments, it will never feel like enough.

Never.

We love you so much, Uncle Ack. What a lucky little girl Charlie is to have another great-funcle with her in heaven. 💛

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Sound Beach, NY

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+16312583195

Website

https://thesunnyhunnyshop.etsy.com/

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