Butterfly Release 2011

Over the past few weeks I have thought of many things that I wanted to write, but just haven’t taken the time to sit down and do it.  Bad I know!

Today we participated in a butterfly release supporting the local bereaved families organization.  Our immediate family came to celebrate Beckett's life with us and we were also surprised by our neighbours and good friends who came out to show their support.  That touched me so much – to know that others still think about Beckett and know how important days like today are to us. 

We each had a butterfly and had to keep it warm so when we were ready to release them they would fly away.  I tucked mine into my hoodie and peeked at it now and again only to see it moving around in its little box.  I thought that as soon as I opened it off it would go.  That isn’t what happened and mine hung around and took a bit of nudging to move along.

But as you can see it didn’t go very far.  It landed on Bodhi’s stroller and hung out there for quite awhile. 

We decided to move it and put it on Bodhi.  The butterfly sat for at least 10 minutes and only moved when I had to move it so I could get Bodhi out of the stroller.   It was like his big brother was watching him and letting him know he was there with us.   Although some may think signs like that are silly and mean nothing, to me it meant the WORLD.