Today Was a Good Day

Cemetery

Even though it rained and even though it was Friday the 13th, today was a very good day.

The wife and I really were looking forward to having Sean Aaron in our lives. We were having fun with the pregnancy. The plans, the expectations and the hopes crashed on Tuesday morning and all of you whom left comments... your words made it to us and we were comforted by them.

What do you do though? At 16 weeks.. we did not want his body simply discarded and burned as medical waste. The wife is Catholic and I am not, I had no ideas. The wife called her church and it turns out that the Catholics have a place to bury the unborn. In their Garden of Angels we laid our son today.

I would have been happy simply to have had him cremated and give us the ashes, but they handled it... they buried him in a casket and we had a graveside service with the Deacon of her church.

Memorial

They went out of their way for us and it never costed us a single dime.

The wife and I... we have a sense of closure now and the rains and clouds that covered us on the way there and during the service were literally gone by the time we left. There was sunshine.

It is still painful, the "what ifs", the hopes, the dreams, the plans we had. We will make it... we always do. One foot in front of the other.

The Wife's church really understands the Irish pride I have. When they baptized our children they would always toss in those old Irish prayers I love so much.

Today was no different as her Deacon ended with the old Irish blessing:

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Burial