Making memories-- for us and for the future "us's"

This walk that we did today raises support for the Lois Hole Center for Women: my home for 6 weeks this year, Noah & Jayden's birth place, Noah & Jayden's last place.  If you've seen the memorial pictures or read a few of my Noah & Jayden blog posts, you've probably heard mention of the clay molds that were made of their hands & feet. We also received teddy bears from the hospital, handprints, footprints, black ones & silver ones, locks of hair, free photography & 2 special memory boxes to hold everything. When Kyle was handed Noah as his heart slowed, he was seated in a comfortable recliner & when it was time to take Jayden off of life support, we were put in a special room and booked for 2 nights in it. These little things may seem like little things to you, but perhaps you can take a moment 'in my shoes' and imagine the world's difference these objects have made in my remembering and in my healing. Today money went to having those rooms & those sentiments for millions of other parents & siblings in need. Today there were TONS of teddy bears collected. And all at the same time there were THOUSANDS, no joke, thousands of babies remembered. From start to finish of this walk were names on the sidewalk of babies lost. It was overwhelming for lack of a better word to see how many people this happened to just in our area. Makes me feel not so misunderstood, not so alone, super bummed that anyone else has had to walk this road too, desperate for those who go through this without the hope I have, Sad, proud to be honoring these families. I know how they need this. And I know how parents in the future will need the room, the bears, the chairs, the prints and so on.