Does it say something about my week when I post a "wordless wednesday" on thursday?? :( The past couple of weeks have been rough for one reason or another. Our family is experiencing a great loss and I can't seem to think about much else besides the pain that a mother and father are experiencing right now. I feel this pain deeply and while I've never experienced the exact loss that they are.......I feel it is my loss too and am grieving with them. Having struggled for 7 years to have a child ~ during that time getting pregnant and thinking that "FINALLY" we have achieved this beautiful dream of ours and having everyone celebrate tears of joy along with us.....only to be laying on a table, with nothing but the joy of a pure miracle in my heart, holding the hand of my husband who has been my rock through all of it, waiting together to hear the heartbeat.........and finding that there isn't one. I don't compare the two levels of pain because they are very different. However, I feel like in some ways I know the thoughts, the pain, the shattered dreams and hopes, the view into the future that looks so lonely now.....that they must be feeling. I think about them daily and the sweet sweet soul that was taken way too soon.

Along with that, Milo is moving into a new "phase"....testing boundaries, independence and mommy's patience. :) Maybe molars?? Who knows....trying to take each moment as it comes and treat it with the love and tenderness that he is needing right now. I have found that since the loss (from above) I have hugged Milo a bit tighter and held him a bit longer .......thanking God for him and knowing that through all the loss we experienced I am enabled to possibly help others through theirs.....or at least grieve with them on an intimate level.

Milo received his new favorite thing yesterday. Just thought I'd end by sharing a sweet picture of him with it. :)