[Mom2BabyNatalie]

Originally Posted by saphire

Dena, just reading your post brought tears again. Oh how I loved your Natalie, you must miss her so much! Do you still feel her around you?

You have done a wonderful job on her "urn" and it was so sweet of Jeanie and Chuck to send it to you.

Fly with the angels sweet Natalie, I miss you.

Sheilagh

Oh Sheilagh, you have no idea.... everyone around here thinks I'm quite odd the way I miss her so much...

Sometimes I do get a little "whisp" of air go by... or a little tingle... but that's likely my wishful thinking that these little spirits still surround us after they've passed... who knows...

I miss her terribly.... folks say that with time, the pain eases - and it gets easier to move on.... I guess I'm just not there yet.

Of course, I keep her memory alive with photos and what my girlfriend calls a "shrine", hahaha..... I don't think "shrine" so much as just keeping sweet memories a part of my daily life...

On the wall of the playroom I've been re-doing for the babies - - is a space dedicated to Natalie... I always tell the furbutts, when we're snuggled down quietly together... how there was once a beautiful little princess York named Natalie.... and proceed to go on with the story.................... so, I was delighted to find some wall decor with the saying "There once was a beautiful princess"... - - - so I added to that, a photo of my girl.. and under that some other wall art reading "fly with the angels" and "dance with the stars"....

The table beneath it, holds my favorite photo of Nat in her GoFetch pj's just days before her passing... and the "urn" that Jeanie and Chuck sent for her ashes....

The new pink bassinett / playpen that we gave Nattie on Christmas morning (that she never got to sleep in, as she passed on Christmas night) - still stands empty....

Perhaps we'll be lucky enough to be joined one day, with another special little girl who will bring with her, the light, love and joy that our precious Natalie once shared with us!

I hope you are well Sheilagh, I haven't seen you on much.... warm hugs to you and yours!