Girl Friends & Sisters

Annalise has been at school now for 6 months and it has been such a positive experience for her to be with other kids. This afternoon on the playground she and 3 of her little girl friends discovered the white blooming weeds in the schoolyard. They each picked a bouquet to give to someone. They all came running across the yard, bouquet in hand, except my little one. She stayed behind, kneeling in the grass. One of the girls gave hers to her babysitter. Another wanted to save hers tightly in her hand to share with her sisters. Annalise picked a spot between two trees to bury hers for Madeleine.

She came back to tell me what she had done. She met back up with her friends, and wanted to show them her little buried bouquet.

Now they are ladybug hunting. Every little girl loves ladybugs. To us, ladybugs are Madeleine showing us she misses us. I would not be surprised if Annalise is sharing that with her friends, and I'm almost curious to know what they will say tonight to their parents at home. "Mom, can you believe Annalise has a sister who is a ladybug??" "Mom, Annalise said her sister DIED… is that true?"  

My prayer continues to be that she will always be sweet in her memories of her sister, and that her friends will try to comfort her when she says she's sad or misses her sister.