No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb
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A little Easter something from grandma
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
Easter Lily
I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.
~ John 11:25-26
Aven's Easter Lily
An Easter Lily was delivered to Aven yesterday from Holly, Todd and Marly with a request that it be planted in her garden so that each year that it blooms, she will know that they are always thinking of her. D and I have the most amazing friends who somehow know when we need them the most. Before the delivery arrived I was just thinking how I should have had a one month old baby dressed in a pretty pink Easter dress with a bow taped to her head... and then the Lily arrived and made my heart smile.
Easter morn with lilies fair
Fills the church with perfumes rare,
As their clouds of incense rise,
Sweetest offerings to the skies.
Stately lilies pure and white
Flooding darkness with their light,
Bloom and sorrow drifts away,
On this holy hallow’d day.
Easter Lilies bending low
in the golden afterglow,
Bear a message from the sod
To the heavenly towers of God.
-Louise Lewin Matthews
Fills the church with perfumes rare,
As their clouds of incense rise,
Sweetest offerings to the skies.
Stately lilies pure and white
Flooding darkness with their light,
Bloom and sorrow drifts away,
On this holy hallow’d day.
Easter Lilies bending low
in the golden afterglow,
Bear a message from the sod
To the heavenly towers of God.
-Louise Lewin Matthews
Aven in Missouri
The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
~Bern Williams
Picture taken by Flor at the Kauffman Garden in Kansas City, MO
Saturday, April 23, 2011
Aven's Dad
While we were taking pictures around the church in Darmstadt, I walked up on D capturing a picture of Aven's name. I saw him fixing the letters, trying to get them to stand the way he wanted them too. It was pretty cute and very touching. It is one of the memories I will hold on to forever...
D at the St. Mary Magdelene Church in Darmstadt
Aven's dad
Aven in Cologne
Picture taken in front of the Cologne Cathedral
Picture of Cologne Cathedral
The Cologne Cathedral is one of the world's largest churches. The pictures we took don't even capture half of the size. This is a picture of what the cathedral looks like at night. Unfortunately, we didn't take the picture below and we didn't get to see it lit up at night but even in the day the awesomeness of it is indescribable.
Aven in Darmstadt
Picture taken in front of the Wedding Tower in Darmstadt
Picture of St. Mary Magdalene Church
Aven in Frankfurt
Picture taken from the top of the Kaufhof on the Zeil.
Can you see D hiding? :)
Can you see D hiding? :)
Picture taken at the Romer in Frankfurt
Monday, April 18, 2011
Do you have any children?
Today was my first day at my new but old job. The reason I say new but old is that both D and myself worked at the agency that I am now employed with prior...and now I am there...well again. It is actually the agency that D and I met at and there are still many people that work there that know both D and myself prior to our world being shaken apart. We were newlyweds when we left there. Today, I was asked not once but three times the all ever dreaded question a person who has lost a child hates to answer... Do you have any children? The first two times I was asked this question it was by 2 people that I just met today for the very first time. I knew that I was not going to say "none".
D and I were faced with this question a couple of months after I had Aven and after the words came out of both of our mouths that we didn't have any children...well it made me feel awful and sad and like a liar. I vowed after that first incident that I would never deny that Aven existed. I don't want to spill my entire life story to a stranger but I can't just say "none" and I won't ever again say "none". To the 2 strangers that I met today, that I will see daily now at my new job, when they asked "Do you have any children?" ...my answer to them and to anyone that asks me from now on will be that "I don't have any living children". To the 3rd person that asked me this today, because she knew both D and myself I told her briefly about Aven.
I know every mother that has lost a child has their own way of how they handle this question and that there is no right or wrong way to go about it. I knew I was going to be asked this question at some point today so I braced myself for it. Maybe if I say it often enough...it won't catch in my throat when I say the words out loud next time. Saying them in my head and hearing them come out of my mouth to an actual person are a nice little welcome to your new life sort of moment... unreal.
D and I were faced with this question a couple of months after I had Aven and after the words came out of both of our mouths that we didn't have any children...well it made me feel awful and sad and like a liar. I vowed after that first incident that I would never deny that Aven existed. I don't want to spill my entire life story to a stranger but I can't just say "none" and I won't ever again say "none". To the 2 strangers that I met today, that I will see daily now at my new job, when they asked "Do you have any children?" ...my answer to them and to anyone that asks me from now on will be that "I don't have any living children". To the 3rd person that asked me this today, because she knew both D and myself I told her briefly about Aven.
I know every mother that has lost a child has their own way of how they handle this question and that there is no right or wrong way to go about it. I knew I was going to be asked this question at some point today so I braced myself for it. Maybe if I say it often enough...it won't catch in my throat when I say the words out loud next time. Saying them in my head and hearing them come out of my mouth to an actual person are a nice little welcome to your new life sort of moment... unreal.
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