Dear Girlies,
Yesterday we said goodbye to you. You didn’t look like yourselves, you looked like little porcelain baby dolls laying together in your bassinet. You were holding hands. I was blown away by the number of people that came on Friday to say goodbye to you and tell you how much they love you. Kim is taking all of the cards and putting them in a book for you. And the flowers…they are all just beautiful…I hope that wherever you are, you can smell them and smile. Amelia wanted to give you a message so she wrote them on balloons and let them go up into the sky. She held my hand during your service and helped give out big hugs to everybody afterward.<\/p>\n
It seems like wherever I go in the house, I am reminded of you. Sonya picked up all of your things and put them in your room. She closed the heat vent and the door. I went in there yesterday and it was so dark and cold, but I know that if everything were throughout the house it would be even harder on me. All of your ‘aunts’ and ‘uncles’ came over yesterday and we played SingStar. I got really upset when MC Hammer was playing because it reminded me of you. Do you remember when you were still too small for most of your clothes and we put you in pj pants and shirts. We teased you that you were wearing Hammer pants and then we made you do the Hammer dance. It was so funny and even now I am smiling thinking about it, but for some reason yesterday it made me sad.<\/p>\n
Heather is going back to Colorado tonight and Sonya and everybody else is going back to work in the morning. Tomorrow it will just be me and Daddy. I think we are just going to sleep the entire day. I would like to go to sleep for a few weeks and wake up and have everything be ok. I don’t think that is possible though. You can’t sleep off this kind of pain the same way you sleep off a headache or a cold. Even when I’m sleeping, I’m thinking of you.<\/p>\n
I want you to know that we love you. I hope that we made the right decisions for you. I hope that everything was done the way you would have wanted. I hope that you’re in a place now where you aren’t suffering and struggling. I hope that you know just how special you are to so many people.
Love,
Mommy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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