Due Dates

Due dates are important. Whether it's a report for a job, a project for school, or a baby, you know that you'd better be ready when that day comes. You prepare, you do the work, so when the day comes, you are ready. Some due dates you dread, others you count down to with excitement. You know that by the "due date" you're going to have something to show for your hard work...or maybe you won't. Today, March 14, 2013, was our due date. We did the work, hard work, but unlike most other due dates, this day will come and go with nothing to show for our efforts, at least nothing to show on earth, only in heaven. I think about how big my belly would have been, whether we had carried all three, or two, or just one of our babies to term. Would we have delivered early or late? What are the sexes of our three babies? Do any of them have Jeremy's dimples or my family's red hair? We realize that one day in heaven, we will know, which is a comfort, but not comforting enough to completely heal our broken hearts or remedy the sadness we feel that today will come and go without anything to show for all we've done and experienced. We will celebrate their lives in heaven tonight, together, alone, so that our "due date" doesn't come and go unrecognized. We will thank God for our babies and for His promise of hope and a future. We may not have living children, but we are parents. Lessons learned: #1-You can do everything right, or everything that's asked of you, and still not have a positive outcome or get what you want. #2-Due dates come and go, but memories last a lifetime. #3-Some events in your life leave you forever changed.

Our babies before the transfer

Our babies after the transfer-They were there, three little blips, however short the time.