Two Things

Today was another busy day, not stressful, just busy. Spencer and I stayed home from church just because and it's hard to get out on a cool Sunday morning. Mike went because he plays the drums in the Praise Team. Mike cooked lunch while I was cleaning up the clothes, folding and putting them away. Since the washer has been fixed, I'm finally seeing the bottom of all the piles! When I walked through the hall I notice a sharpie pen laying in the floor with the cap gone. First I thought, how the heck did that get in here, I didn't have it in here?" Then it dawned on me, SPENCER! When I brought the pen in the kitchen I asked Spencer where the lid was and he just looked at me. Mike told me not to growl at him for doing that and believe me I WASN'T even thinking about scalding him in fact I was proud! My little guy got into my pens in a glass on my buffet and got a sharpie and took the lid off and proceeded to do what all little kids do....WRITE ON THINGS! Well I searched and could find nothing as to what he had wrote on. I was so happy but wanted to find where he had left his marks. Tonight after his shower, I always put him on his bed to lotion him up and put his jammies on. Low and behold there on his sheets were all kinds of SCRIBBLES!! I started to cry and yelled at Mike that I had found the marks. I was so excited, I didn't care about all the think blacks lines on the pillow case and flat sheet, no all I cared about was my son had taken the initiative to take a pen and make marks. This may sound absolutely crazy, but until you know what it's like to wait on accomplishments you'll never know how happy this made me. But for those of you that share the waiting on your child to hit that developmental milestone, you know what I'm talking about. I am a proud Mommie right now!

The second thing I want to share is the Walk to Remember that we attend every year at the Greenville Hospital off of Church Street. We have been attending this for 8 years now and it is important to us to take this one day to remember our daughter in a formal way. Madelyn would have been 9 years on Nov. 29 and 8 years ago we met a great group of people from the Resolve through Sharing Bereavement Program at the hospital. The lady, Danny, that held our support groups, became a close friend and she will always be close to our hearts. This year for some reason, it was harder to attend this service than it had been in the past. There is not a day that goes by that we don't think about Madelyn and how her short life has made me a better person. Losing our child is something that will never go out of our minds, we will experience it the rest of our life. Please don't feel sorry for us, but pray for us that God will give us strength to get through the rough times and faith that someday we will be with our little angel in heaven. The picture of hands is when the ribbons are tied on the Tree of Life in the Memorial Garden at the hospital.