Another way that we celebrated and remembered our Jeremiah was through a gift of my mom's. On Easter she presented us with a little tree and the children's book The Three Trees. I love the symbolism and the simple gift. It is such a sweet way to remember our guy, and I hope that we can keep the tree alive as well as move the tree with us if we ever leave.
Here are some pics of us planting the tree and marking it for Jeremiah.
And, we ended the day with a swimming party. Celebrating life and loss.
The girls helping daddy dig the hole.
The boys supervised on the side of his house.
The boys have really begun to interact.
We all just LOVE it when we see the boys notice one another.
It's so healing and painful to watch these two brothers interact and continue to grow.
I feel humbled that I still have them yet so angry that I do not have their brother. The parallels of planting a tree to remember one while watching two others who are at the exact stage he would be at as well as watching the identical image that he would bear leave me at a loss for words.
Emma made a sweet little sign for the tree.
We wanted to make sure Jeremiah knew this tree was for him!
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Ems never missing a photo op!
And, we ended the day with a swimming party. Celebrating life and loss.
As I reflect back on this day filled of remembrance, I am struck with the symbolism of dirt, earth, burial, life, and growth. How each of these can represent our beginning, our end, our hopes, our desires, and our fears. We spent the day digging and planting in the earth new life in order to remember a life that we buried in the dirt of the earth. We spent the day laughing and watching two boys grow as we remembered the one boy we lost.
We love you, Jeremiah David! What we wouldn't give for more time with you, but we rest with great joy knowing that although we can't hold you, you are being held in the arms of our Savior.
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