Yesterday was April 27, one year since sweet angel Sophia Noel took her last breath. It seems like forever since I have held her in my arms. We made the weekend a busy one, which turned out to be the right think to do, at least for us. I really struggled last week at work and kept losing it, but Friday night my friend Tina flew in from Atlanta, and a bunch of my friends (Cathi, Kathy, Kristin and Shannon) came over and we made Team Sophie T-shirts--oh and drank a bunch of wine. It was fun and we laughed and cried a bit, it is amazing to have such incredible friends. After going to bed at 3:30 a.m. and getting up at 8:00, Saturday was a bit of a challenge...we had a birthday party (for a two year old!) and then had to get everything ready for Sunday
Sunday itself started a little strange. As we were getting ready an ambulance screamed by right around 6:00 a.m.--it doesn't happen by our house very often so it was a freaky coincidence and it really threw Mike and I for a loop. Then Mike was getting a backpack ready to go and pulled out one of Sophie's pacifiers. It was too much. Amazingly the rest of the day was pretty incredible, about 40 people showed up to run or walk with Team Sophie, all wearing t-shirts with her picture on the back. It was hard to be really sad with that much love and support surrounding us the whole time. We came in nearly dead last too.....but nobody cared!
At the finish line Sophie's day care teacher Miss Laura, who we hadn't seen since last summer--noticed Sophie's picture on the back of someone's t-shirt. She waited around for us and was so sweet. They still think about Sophia at the Wooden Shoe and were headed out to the cemetery to place some flowers.
Today Mike and I are mellowing out at home, trying to decompress. I feel as though maybe we have turned a corner, having been through the firsts (birthday, christmas, easter, etc) but maybe it is just wishful thinking.....Thanks everyone for loving us so much......
Snow Globe
10 years ago
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Wow, the day before Hayden's one year angel day we had to take our other son to an appt. It was about an hour away so i took our bigger diaper bag and as i was packing the bag up i found some of hayden's old meds. It has been in that diaper bag for a year, then i found something else that was his. Then when we got to the dr's i was pulling out a notepad to take some notes and turned to the page that was of everything that was brought into our home after we lost him. It was hard to look at but gave us some comfort and it was kind of like our sign from him that he is still with us.
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