A WALK TO REMEMBER OUR BABIES....
This weekend we took the whole family down to Dallas to participate in their Walk to Remember Ceremony. We had to go as a part in our training to take over our Tulsa chapter of MEND...
Needless to say, it was an emotional day...HARD!
The boys and I worked really hard with the Dallas team on all the preparations and Greg held down the fort at the hotel with the little ones.... he did amazingly well:)
It was such a special day... we had over 1,000 people attend the walk to honor the lives of their babies.
As we started the walk to go to where the ceremony would be held, Greg and I looked ahead of us and behind us at how many people were there remembering the lives of their babies. He right away said, "This will certainly show you that you are not a lone!" Sometimes you feel so alone in the loss of a baby or child and yesterday I didn't feel that way at all!
Everyone who attends gets to release a balloon for their baby... blue for boy, pink for girl, and white for a miscarriage... Once we started to release the balloons it was absolutely breathtaking...
They also give you an ornament for each loss and when the call the names of your babies you get to take your ornaments up and hang them on the MEND tree... special!
I am so thankful for MEND, an organization that works so hard to help validate the life of your baby, no matter how short....
2 comments:
Is that Tim Hawkins getting the balloon out of the tree in your family pic from the walk? :) Love you ALL! All Eleven of you -- here and above -- (and Tim too!) mary and chris
So beautiful. I'm so glad you did this. I keep thinking we need to join in too.
We remember. Missing Samuel with you, friend.
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