Candles Lit for the Babies

Last night we participated in the International Wave of Light for the babies gone too soon. I tried to remember all of the ones that I personally know of and lit candles for each of them.

We lit 19 candles and then prayed for their families. There were candles for: Hannah, Hope, Faith, Noah, Colton, Conner & Ben, Nathaniel, Edward, Mikayla, and a few others who's names I don't know or were lost early in pregnancy and never given names.

Bubbles for Colton

In the last 6 months I have met a lot of loss moms online. One I know had a stillborn boy last August, almost exactly 6 months before we lost Nathaniel. Today baby Colton would have been 1.

I see a lot of similarities between our families. We both have a living child who is about 4. We both lost our second child. Both were boys. Both were stillborn. We both have blogs. And we both have some pretty great faith.

His family is having people blow bubbles for him today and take pictures so we did. You can too. If you do, send them to me and I can pass them on to them. It would mean a lot.