Our Lily Grace has a purpose in this life even though she left our arms way too soon.. I say "has" instead of had because her purpose still unfolds daily.
I saw this picture earlier and wanted to share. This is one of the first hairbows that the wonderful nurses at Kosair Childrens Hospital tied to Lily's wires and once we learned that we could put hairbows on Lily, it never stopped.
You see.. I couldn't dress Lily, change her diapers, provide normal daily care that a mother would do for her child.. but I could put a hairbow on her & that helped to make the situation feel a little more normal because that's what we do with our little baby girls.. we dress them up & hairbows helped me do that in our own special way...
Putting hairbows on Lily helped my family.. it made my daughter feel special (or so I hope) and it gave us normalcy.. so now my family & I do "The Lily Grace Project: Hairbows for Healing" to help other sick children in the hospital have some normalcy (a normal every day little girl thing- hairbows), makes the sick child feel special, and lets that precious child and their family know that they are not alone & that we are thinking about them..
Hairbows can symbolize so much more than people sometimes realize
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