Kara Keough is honoring her late son on his 5th birthday as the family prepares to move.
“Today, on McCoy’s 5th birthday, we say goodbye to our family home before we hand the keys over tomorrow,” Keough, 36, wrote via Instagram on Sunday, April 6. “The walls of this home were a witness. They’ve seen love and laughter, pain and suffering, hurt and healing. They’ve seen birth, death, painful goodbyes, and new beginnings. These walls have held us during a pandemic, the loss of our son, the death of my dad.”
She continued, “More of my tears have fallen inside this house than in all the other places my tears have ever fallen combined. The shower alone probably has a Tears Spilled Record individually, but our bedroom beats that out by at least half a million tons. Childhood has flared brilliantly within these walls, mainly ignited by my magnificently playful husband.”
Keough noted that McCoy’s spirit has “raced equally playfully down these halls every day since he was born inside of it — opening doors, turning toys on, flashing lights, always finding ways to make us feel him.”
Alongside her caption, Keough shared a walk-through of their home and snaps from McCoy’s 5th birthday party. In one video, Keough shared a close-up image of a “Heavenly Halos and Wands” table. The sign read, “Create your own piece of heaven by decorating a wand or halo.” Another sign encouraged guests to decorate a baseball cap “fit for an angel.”
“And while I’ve brought two other newborn babies home ‘to’ it, only he was born into it, and therefore of it. This place is undeniably linked to him and saying goodbye to it rips something open inside me again,” Keough’s caption continued. “But hopefully what all those fit meatheads say is true when they explain: ‘It’s the microtears that make you stronger.’ Beyond the walls, something even more treasured was built brick-by-brick: a community of friends that became family.”
The Real Housewives of Orange County alum shared that “God knew what was coming for us” before putting the family on “the Best Street in America.” She gushed that the neighbors “surrounded us in our time of grief, and loved us so damn well.”
“I refuse to say goodbye to them, because these friendships we’ve made aren’t ones that are bound by proximity — no, these are those ‘no-matter-what’ kinda friends,” Keough wrote. “The night McCoy died, we walked to the end of the cul-de-sac to see the little garden the neighborhood kids planted for him while he was on life support in the NICU. As we walked, we noticed blue hearts hung on each door of our loving street.”
She concluded, “Every year, on his birthday, these no-matter-what friends throw him (and us) a party that makes each understandably hard milestone a day to look forward to. Each year, this day brings less pain and more joy. I think they call that healing, so thanks to my healers on the Court💙.”
Keough and her husband, Kyle Bosworth, welcomed daughter Decker in 2016. Three years later, the pair shared that they were expecting their second baby. McCoy died during childbirth in 2020.
“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,” Keough wrote via Instagram at the time. “Until we see you again. We love you, McCoy.”
Keough and Bosworth, who tied the knot in 2014, have since welcomed son Vaughn and daughter Stetson in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
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