Easter

Well, the past few weeks have been really rough.  I think because it's April and Wiley's due date is Friday. 

Yesterday began my first year of "firsts," being first Easter/holiday.  Friday will be due date and then of course we have Mother's day, my birthday, Father's day, etc.

So yesterday as everyone got Easter baskets ready for their kids, dressed their kids in their Easter clothes, post tons of Facebook pictures of their family all dressed nice and their kids hunting eggs, I was decorating my baby's grave at the cemetery.  I was taking pictures of the Easter decorations I put at the cemetery because that's all I can do.  That's the only picture I can take. 

I wonder, Do those people plastering all their family pictures, pictures of the kids hunting eggs and everything the Easter Bunny brought their kids, do they know how blessed they are? Do they take getting to do all of that for granted? I hope not.

But hey that's not what Easter is about! Easter is about Jesus dying for you and for me so that we may have eternal life.  It's about Jesus rising from the dead and the tomb being empty. Because of what Jesus did for us on the cross, I will get to hold my baby again someday. Thank you Jesus!
He is alive and he will come back one day for those who have accepted him.  I'm ready! Are you?

I am blessed.  Even though my world has been ripped away from me, I'm still blessed.  I have my husband, my health, my family, our home.  I don't have Wiley here, but God has blessed me in so many ways.  Now, if I could just keep telling myself that. 
Happy Easter yesterday. 

Here is Wiley's grave at the cemetery.  His headstone didn't come in before Easter and they haven't put sod down yet, but I worked with what I had.