One week from today we will celebrate our Jeslyn by planting a memorial garden in her honor. We have invited our friends and those that have supported us throughout this journey to help us create something to remember our sweet baby girl by. We've asked that everyone bring a plant or a pot of flowers that they would like to include in Jeslyn's garden. We plan to read a few meaningful passages/poems and place the brick we had made for Jeslyn (the same brick that was placed in the memorial walkway this year at Noah's Quest) at the base of her cherry blossom tree, to provide water and lemonade to drink, fruit and sweet treat to eat, as well as purple ribbons for everyone to hear to honor our Jeslyn. Although...wlikely plant the cherry blossom tree on Friday, September 12th as this is Jeslyn's due date, not the 13th. It will be something we can do as a family, privately, before we invite our friends and supporters to help us memorialize our girl.
I have been feeling very much at peace with this decision to include our friends and supporters in this way, because we couldn't have gotten through the last alomst 6 months without them. But, I would be lying if I said I wasn't worried about how it will all transpire. I know that it will be an emotional morning/afternoon for me, and, I just hope that people will embrace that and allow whatever emotions or feelings that come for me to come without judgement. I worry about it because I am a worry wort. But, I am sure that everyone will be respectful and understanding.
We don't have anything like this as of yet, but, I would eventually like to have something like the below to sit in he corner of Jeslyn's garden:
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Maybe one day, after everything is planted and it's spring time next year, we can place this in her garden for her first heavenly birthday.
