June 22nd was the memorial for the baby loss moms from the 1st quarter of 2014. Man, that just sounds like a statistic. Weird. Brandon had just had back surgery two days prior and we didn't attend. I called ahead of time and asked that they send the program to me. I also asked them to include us in the next memorial in September. They said they would.
Yesterday, in the mail, Claire's program arrived. It brought tears to my eyes. They enclosed a memorial keepsake as well. On the back it had the meanings for her name, her middle name, my first name and Brandon's first name. One of the words they used for hers was "vivacious". This was exactly how she felt kicking inside me and exactly how I imagined her. When I dreamt of her, she was very "vivacious". I couldn't have found a word more fitting that that.
This made me very happy. Brandon, myself, and our families will be at the next memorial. We felt bad for missing this one but we had to.
Here are pictures of the program and memorial.
It takes special people to do this work. But I am thankful for these people.
It does really take special people to do these things. Many of them have had losses themselves. It looks like they did a wonderful job.
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