combatchuck103

It's really interesting how different people deal with grief. I'm not OP, but my wife and I lost our first daughter at 24 weeks. We delivered her, held her, and read her a book that we bought for her nursery (I know she didn't hear it, but it was a significant part of saying goodbye for us).

She is still a regular part of our lives. Our younger daughter knows about her, and around the house, it's not uncommon to talk about subjects like what she might be doing if she were with us at that time.

Outside of the house is a much different story... It is incredible the number of people that ask about your children when they only see one. "How many kids do you have?", "Are you going to have more?", "Do you have any other children, or just the one?", etc... It really does affect me, but it's a battle we've chosen not to fight. I'm happy to talk about our journey, but it's not a topic for small-talk. So yes bank teller/checkout clerk/random passerby, I only have the one child. Which always eats me up inside, as if somehow I'm failing our first daughter.

I know it's not fair to expect people to avoid certain harmless questions. I just think it's valuable perspective to understand that they're not always as simple (or harmless) as they might seem.

As a web designer, W3C is the single most useful resource for my day to day.

Wow. Thanks for this!

For my senior project in Graphic Design I have decided to make a faux wine company identity with a logo and physical products. My biggest barrier has been finding out what the industry standard for paper and adhesive is for the bottle label is. Any insight into what kind of materials I should be looking for?