Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Garden Flags, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Sympathy Gifts and Baskets, tagged angel keepsakes, angels, Angelversaries, Bereaved Families, cord accident, just a cloud away, memorials, memory gardens, miscarriage, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October, October 15th, pregnancy and infant loss, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness, pregnancy loss ribbons, SIDS, Stillborn, sympathy gifts on September 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those who have lost a baby or pregnancy, our month to remember the dreams we had is October. We also share this month with those who have been touched by Breast Cancer. Angelversary Pregnancy Loss Ribbon Garden Flags create awareness of those suffering “silent grief”.
An angelversary is the death date of a much wanted [...]
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Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Just a Cloud Away Remembrance Kit, Scrapbooking for Bereaved Families, Sympathy Gifts and Baskets, tagged angels, Angelversaries, florist, greensboro, memory gardens, Scruggs Florist, Stillborn, sympathy baskets, sympathy gifts, tanner on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When my baby Tanner passed September 28, 2003, sympathy flowers were delivered almost every day for a month. Scruggs Florist in Greensboro, North Carolina delivered the most because they were located less than a mile away from our house. 5 1/2 years later I am helping the florist create an appropriate sympathy basket for bereaved [...]
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My Angel’s Memory Garden starts to bloom just in time to wrap up the winter blues. The air is beginning to warm with a gentle fragrance of flowers and daylight shines a couple more hours.
The white daffodils, tulips, creeping phlox, helleborus or lenten rose, and candytuft are gracing us with whites, creams and colors of [...]
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Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, tagged angel, angel ornament, angelversary, balloon, generalized anxiety disorder, Memory Garden, SANDS, Stillborn, tanner, traditions on September 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
5 years ago was the worst day of my life when Tanner was pronounced dead at the hospital. I would have never thought I’d be acknowledging my sweet son’s 5th birthday in his memory garden.
When you loose a baby, these times are not easy to endure. Tanner would be going to kindergarden and making new friends, [...]
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Posted in Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, tagged angel, baby death, Faith, God, grief, Jesus, Memory Garden, Pastor, stillborn baby, tanner on September 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Pastor Cecil came to the hospital as soon as the community heard of Tanner’s death. We had never met this man before and with his tremendous faith in Jesus and love for Tanner, came to comfort us in our time of absolute devastation.
My husband and I did not belong to a church at the time of [...]
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Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Landscape Design Ideas, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, tagged angels, angelversary, butterflies, butterfly release, Comforting Memory Gardens, deceased babies, tanner, Tradition on August 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My brother and sister-in-law were nothing but supportive after the death of my son. They did not think twice about flying to North Carolina from Buffalo for Tanner’s memorial service to comfort us. Still today, almost 5 years later they remember our baby in heaven with a special activity, a butterfly release.
My nephews purchased a butterfly kit [...]
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Posted in Angelversaries, Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Rocky Roads Ahead, tagged angels, angelversary, balloons, Birthday, Citalopram, d&c, deceased child, expected due date, heaven, memory gardens, Parents of Angels, pregnancy loss, remembrance, stillbirth, Stillborn, tanner, traditions on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The angelversary date has no rules. For us it is the day Tanner’s stillborn body laid in my arms (also my husband’s birthday), for my girlfriend it was the day of her D&C, for another, her child’s expected due date.
Once the month of August hits, my anxiety starts building. September 28th is Tanner’s angelversaryand for years [...]
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After almost 5 years of building Tanner’s memory garden, there is life other than the plants we installed. The sweetest sound was that of 4 baby birds in one of the crape myrtle trees planted. They obviously thought mama was on her way with food.
I was so happy a mother bird found refuge in Tanner’s [...]
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Posted in Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, tagged angel poems, angels, baby angels, Our Heavenly Angels, Parents of Angels, Poems, poems for loss, shock, Stillborn, supporting grieving mothers, supportive girlfriends on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I so love my girlfriends with all of my heart. I am so appreciative for how they supported me when my son Tanner was stillborn. 80% of my friends were either pregnant or just had their babies at the time of Tanner’s death. Doesn’t it seem to always work out that way.
One of my friends [...]
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Posted in Comforting Memory Gardens, Our Heavenly Angels, Pregnancy,infant & baby loss, grief support, Unique Angel Crafts, tagged angel jars, angels, Baby Loss, heaven, keepsake, memorial craft, memorial keepsakes, memorials, miscarriage, pennies from heaven, pregnancy and infant loss, stillbirth on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Angel Jars can be created as memorials for our babies in heaven. This is a simple craft to hold all of the Angel Pennies our sweet children leave us on the streets, sidewalks, doorsteps and other places. Living siblings, cousins or friends can also help create Angel Jars. This craft project may give younger children an outlet to [...]
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