Carrying On
How We’re Continuing Isla’s Story
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How We’re Continuing Isla’s Story
Isla’s Nana joined Elizabeth and I in spending Christmas in one of our favorite countries in the world!
Here’s what you can you do this month to help raise awareness for pregnancy and infant loss.
Question #3: “What does religion have to do with your story?"
Life has moved on all around us these past 13 months. We hope you’d be proud of the life we’ve built with your memory at its core. We have so many amazing plans for your foundation and hope you’re snuggled up with the angels, surrounded by all the beautiful babies your life has touched.
Our goal is to donate 21 of our Hospital Memory Boxes to the hospital where Isla was born to celebrate her on her FIRST BIRTHDAY on June 21st.
We hope to be a beacon of hope, love, and positivity for families who walk this path after us. For families like ours, tangible items are all you have left of your child. While we cannot change the outcome for these families, we will provide them with what they need to make those physical memories last forever.
It has been an entire year since we learned of Isla’s diagnosis... a year since we left our innocence behind us and set out on what truly ended up being the adventure of a lifetime. Waking up on February 7th, 2020 we had no idea what was heading our way. No idea of the life changes we were about to endure. We are now ever aware that we have no clue what could be lurking around the next corner.
We had so many plans for this Christmas. Before we knew of Isla’s diagnosis we were planning for a massive family event to celebrate her first Christmas. After her diagnosis we were planning to be surrounded by our families in Scotland, our favorite place and the origin of her name. Enter Covid and exit any further plans we had! Now we are lucky to be with one side of our family - and hope that our months of consistent mask wearing, sanitizing and isolating has worked.
Almost six months of carving out our new normal. Back to work and school. Back to running errands. Back to life obligations. We’re good, right?
“These are the hands that will countless times wipe tears from your eyes; whether in sorrow or in joy. These are the hands that will comfort you in illness, and hold you when fear or grief engulfs your heart.”
Tonight at 7PM in your local time zone is the International Wave of Light. At 7PM, whenever you are in the world, light a candle for one hour. This will allow for a wave of light to travel the globe in memory of all babies gone too soon.
October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness (PAIL) Month. October 15 specifically is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
I’m selling PAIL pins (pictures below) for $2 each.
Every day I get to go to work somewhere where my baby girl is honored, remembered, and loved. Every day I get to go to work somewhere where my heart is cared for. I am blessed to work in a district where I’m surrounded by compassion and care all the way to the top - human first, employee second.
We cannot thank all of you enough for your unwavering support - both personally and financially. We wouldn’t be able to do this without you.
I hope that these songs shine a little bit of light on your day today. Know that you’re not alone in these hard times, and it’s okay to “get it out” in any way that you can. Music is such a great escape, but it’s also one of the few forms of art that can put words to feelings that are hard to describe.