She Brings Joy

In Memory~

This is my shadow box, with sweet Beatrix's tiny footprint. 

We {and our friends/family} have done a number of things in her memory. 

My husband and I began a support site for families facing the same diagnosis- 

www.limbbodywallcomplex.net

But that will be my inspiration photo, so I'll save more for that later. 

One of my close friends is currently training to run a half-marathon in My Bea's memory, for Saint Joesph's Children's Hospital. 

Various family members have donated to a number of organizations in her name. 

Our current memory project? We are in the process of writing a proposal to our church counsel, to ask that we be allowed to fund-raise for a new playground. 

We would like to do this by her 5th birthday, which would be December 2015. 

We also have begun planning a new aspect of support which is often overlooked, that we are so excited about- but that's a future goal. 

Much of our charitable giving and activities revolve around our daughter- and all of those gifts, whether of time, talent, or money, are done in memory of our daughter. 

Day 4. My Most Treasured Item.

This was difficult to choose- obviously, anything connected to Beatrix is my favorite item. And morbidly, I have to say that her ashes would be what I would run back into a burning house for. But I can't share a photo of them. That is for me alone.

I would have to say second only to them are these:

                                                                     tiny foot


                                                                    tiny hands


The foot is in a shadow box. Occasionally, I pull the glass off, and touch her tiny toes.  I kept the mould that my husband used to make this- because her foot touched it. Sometimes I touch the interior of that too, because I like to know that I am touching something that she touched.

I love her tiny feet and tiny hands.