This year October 15th was especially meaningful for us. The Tears Foundation, which is the organization that we walk with every September in Kayla's name and raise money for to help families lay their babies to rest, partnered with a local funeral home not far from where we live to build a monument for lost babies. The monument was debuted last October 15th I believe, and families have the option to have their babies' name(s) added to the monument. My in laws were so kind to offer to pay to have Kayla's name added. So yesterday we attended a brief ceremony in honor of October 15th, and then got to see the monument for the first time, and see Kayla's name.
We met them for lunch first, and then went to the ceremony. It was very nice, the leader of the Michigan chapter for Tears said some words, a man sang a song that he wrote for his child, they read the names of the babies on the monument and as your child's name was called you could go up and take a rose and put it in a vase and look at your child's name, and then they ended the ceremony with a couple singing A Thousand Years (which I love and always kind of deemed to be Emily's song, since we waited so long for her) and they released a dove. It was very nice.
Afterwards we went back up to take pictures, and they had crayons and paper there to etch your baby's name off the monument. The monument is very beautiful and I am excited to go back on a day when there is no one there to just reflect. I think it's also a wonderful thing for parents who maybe don't have a place to visit their children's graves.
Here are a few pictures of the monument, and our candles that we lit last night for Kayla and for all the babies gone too soon.
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