First snow of the season ❄️
Yes, my oldest daughter is wearing flip flops. She’s 100% Minnesotan.
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Priming
The girls requested a bed switch – they want the bunkbeds and want the boys to have the twin beds. That request set a large project in motion – purging and cleaning the room out, patching holes, and now priming the walls. I took the girls to Sherwin Williams this afternoon to pick out paint samples. The plan is to paint three walls white and one purple.
Both girls helped prime today, but I only snapped a photo of one. I’ll capture the other one next time.
Mass for loss of a child
I took three of the Shecklets to mass tonight to remember their baby sister. I love the prayer that we prayed at the end of mass.
Birthday #10 – take 2! 🥳
We had to postpone Shecklet #3’s birthday party a week. Thankfully, it was a beautiful day and she had a lot of fun with the family and friends who celebrated with her.
Remembering Astrid
This morning, our family walked in the 2020 NILMDTS Virtual Remembrance Walk in honor of Astrid.
Lower left: The six of us walked together around the neighborhood.
Lower right: My SIL gave me Color Street nail strips that were in recognition Pregnancy, Stillbirth, and Infant Loss awareness month. Astrid’s sisters each had a few fingers with them, too.
I’m incredibly grateful for the retouched images we have of her thanks to Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep.
Shecklet #3’s quaranTEN birthday! 🎂
This girl has made 10 trips around the sun! I cannot believe how fast her first decade has gone. She is an independent, loving, leader who is artistic, kind, and helpful. She gives great hugs and isn’t afraid to show emotion. I love to watch her work hard in school and sports and cannot wait to see what the coming year has in store for her. 🍁 🎃 🍁
We decorated her bedroom door with streamers and made a birthday backdrop for her video calls today. She selected an awesome t-shirt and is all smiles today. Double digits!
For dinner, she requested pancakes, bacon & scrambled eggs. Her godmother/aunt joined us. She waited all day to open her cards and presents.
Birthday cake, was red velvet. The “0” candle on the cake was from the day we brought her home from the hospital. We celebrated her “0th” birthday with the boys as a way of including them in the joy of her birth in 2010.
NILMDTS Remembrance Walk 2020
This year’s remembrance walk is a virtual walk. I ordered a T-shirt (Astrid’s name is on the back) and we will walk together as a family next Saturday. Maybe next year we will be able to join in a live walk again (like we did in support of our friends last fall.)
