Baby Trotter's Due Date 8/24/2010

Angel of Hope

This day, August 24th, 2010, I knew would come. I was not sure how I would feel when this day finally arrived. Adam and I took the day off work to spend it together. Adam planned the day out and it was perfect. One thing we wanted to do was to visit the 'Angel of Hope' statue in Saint Charles, which was part of a support group, SHARE, for parents who have suffered early pregnancy lost and other reasons for the loss of a child. Adam and I attend SHARE a couple times about 2 months after the loss of Baby. 

The statue and surrounding area is intended to be a place of peace and healing for all bereaved parents. 

There are memorial bricks placed around the Angel of Hope twice a year in a brick dedication ceremony, held in April, before Mother's Day and Father's Day, and in November, in time for the holiday season.

When we arrived there and seen all the bricks with family names on them my heart just ached for all these families because, I too, knew the pain in their own hearts. 

So for Mother's Day this year SHARE had this thing on butterflies that they gave to the mom's. It said along the lines of butterflies are memories of the children we have lost. So with that Adam's mom gave me a small jewelry glass box that had butterflies on it, which brings me to this...When Adam and I went to the statue we walked around and read some of the names and then came together and just stood in front of the statue and just then about 10 yellow butterflies just surrounded us out of no where! It gave us chills and was very emotional and amazing! The butterflies were there for about 30 seconds and then they all flew away except for one. That one butterfly stayed around us the whole time we were there. At that moment, I almost felt a sense of peace from God. It was a magical moment we will never forget!

Here is the yellow butterfly. 

Later on that day we went to Build-A-Bear and built a cream colored bear and named it HOPE!