Remembrance

Since starting this blog, I have become a "Blog Stalker".  I check out blogs that I follow, and then look at their followed blogs, and then those followed blogs, and so forth.  It's becoming an addiction.  I used to hate blogs, and now I find them fascinating. 

Some of the blogs that I've been following lately are of mothers that have lost their baby for one reason or another.  I'm not sure why I read these blogs, because all I do is cry and morn these families and babies that I don't know.  But sometimes I feel like I do "know" them from thebump.com (addicted to that site as well). 

Well yesterday, as I was Blog Stalking, I came across this blog http://natalieandadamsjourney.blogspot.com/
I spent most of yesterday (shhhhh, don't tell my boss that I wasn't really working) reading all of her posts about her adorable son Adam and how she lost him so suddenly.  (Gosh, makes me cry again thinking about that day). 
In one of her posts, she said that complete strangers have been lighting candles in remembrance of her son Adam and also Charlotte (from the blog Up to the Moon and Back here: http://lissasue3.blogspot.com/2011/02/three.html)
So, last night while I was getting ready for my fancy Valentine's dinner with the hubby (ha, not really "fancy" but we'll pretend), I was telling him all about Adam and Charlotte's stories.  And how as soon as we got home that I wanted to light a candle for them.  I told him that I couldn't imagine what those families are going through and I don't know how I would handle the loss of our Kali.  It really makes you realize that anything can happen in the blink of an eye that you're not prepared for. 

So, as soon as we got home with Kali, I lit a candle for Adam and Charlotte.  I might not know them personally, but my heart definitely knows them and will remember their stories forever.

Here are a couple of pictures of the candle I lit.  (I'm in desperate need of a new camera, so these aren't the best pictures - but the thought is there all the same!)

To Adam and Charlotte:

You may have only lived short lives, but your story lives on through your families.  And even though they might not know it; those stories touch others. 
You have touched my heart forever! Rest in Peace little angels!

~Stephanie