Dearest Makiah, In a few minutes it will be your 11th birthday! We started celebrating you tonight. I brought home tiny chocolate cupcakes after work, and we ate them before dinner. The girls and I decided you would have liked that! Your sister’s decided they want to send their balloons they got at the Mother Daughter Tea up to heaven to you tomorrow. It was completely their idea! Abby wants to tie a french fry on hers because you loved fries. I guess she thinks you’d like a little french fry snack in heaven! She also told me that a boy at school told her he was in love with her today. Oh kindergarten! It reminded me that you came home one day saying your sweet friend Isaiah had asked you to marry him on the playground, and you said yes because you loved him. It also made me wonder what sort of conversations we would be having now if you were finishing up the fifth grade. Would we be chatting about boys or s...
I have never wanted to be a blogger until this morning (10/23/10). For some reason I awoke feeling the need to share this journey. My four year old daughter was killed in a tragic car accident on October 8th, 2010 when our car was struck by a teen on marijuana. This blog is a small window into the brokenness of my heart and perhaps... one day, the healing. Do not mistake this for theological discourse. Jesus, not our circumstances, equals perfect theology. Be warned, this is raw...