Happily N’ever After - When Sandcastles Fall

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This series shares the story of Liz — her childhood dreams, her love for fairytales, her courage, and the heartbreak of loss. It is a story of a mother’s love, a daughter’s bravery, and the hope that still rises even when castles crumble. Each chapter weaves imagination with real life, offering honesty, compassion, and encouragement for anyone walking through their own storms.

✨ New chapters are released every Tuesday and Friday as the story unfolds.

📖 Chapters

1. Happily ’N’ever After – When Sandcastles Fall: Introduction
   (The opening to this series. Why I chose to tell Liz’s story now, the meaning of the title, and how fairytales and real life often intertwine. This post sets the stage for what’s to come.)
   👉 [Read Introduction]

2. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Girl Who Loved Stories
   (Liz’s childhood love of fairytales, music, and imagination — the spark of her story.)
   👉 [Read Chapter 1]

3. The Castles We Build as Children
   (How childhood — mine and hers — shaped the dreams and foundations we built on.)
   👉 [Read Chapter 2]

4. The Hidden Strand of Connection

   (The mysterious bond between grandmother, mother, and daughter — a golden thread of love woven across generations, deeper than biology, stronger than time.)

   👉 [Read Chapter 3]

5. A Tapestry of Many Hands
   (The people, places, and moments that wove into Liz’s story — threads of love, influence, and connection, all part of the greater design.)

   👉 [Read Chapter 4]

6. When the Dragons Awoke

   (The quiet shadows of the past begin to stir, unraveling the hidden battles between body, mind, and memory — and awakening the deeper story of healing that would shape both mother and daughters.)

   👉 [Read Chapter 5]

7. The Lessons We Learn to Teach

   (The years of raising young daughters became both classroom and mirror—where faith, love, and exhaustion often met at the same table. Through creativity, mentorship, and quiet acts of grace, Jen began to see that healing and teaching were threads of the same tapestry. Even in the unraveling, something deeper was still being woven.}

   👉 [Read Chapter 6]

8. Riding the Golden Years

   (The golden years shimmered with laughter, faith, and the freedom of homeschooling days—where lessons were lived as much as they were taught. But even in the brightest seasons, shadows begin to stir, and the threads of tomorrow quietly start to unravel)

   👉 [Read Chapter 7]
   

   
   (…and more chapters to follow as the journey continues.)
   
   

Where truth and healing meet after loss — a reflection of love’s quiet strength.

🌾 Reflection for Navigation Page

Some stories are born from light. Others rise from ashes.
This one is both.

Happily N’ever After isn’t about endings — it’s about what remains.
It’s the quiet strength of love that keeps rebuilding,
the courage to speak truth in places that silenced it,
and the grace to believe that even in loss, something sacred still lives.

If these words find you in your own unraveling,
may you know you’re not alone in it.
Hope still holds — even here.

🪷💙
— Jen

🌊 A Note to Readers

Thank you for walking this journey with me. Liz’s story is not only hers — it is for every parent, every survivor, and every heart that has ever longed for a happily ever after.