Tonight's picture was taken on December 5, 2002. This was Mattie's first time seeing the snow. I literally opened the front door for him to see it. He quickly zoomed over in his tot wheels to check it out. Mattie actually loved the snow and as he got older, he loved playing in it. On snow days we were both outside in the cold for hours because Mattie loved to create and build in it. In fact it was on the very day captured in this picture that we dressed Mattie up in his little Santa suit, dragged tot wheels in the snow and then snapped photos. Of which one of those photos was on the cover of our Christmas card that year.
Quote of the day: Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come. ~ Karen Joy Fowler
I snapped this photo today of our 4th tree, a White Swamp Oak. This tree was most recently planted in September, around the anniversary of Mattie's death.
We bought several ornaments for the tree while in Boston over Thanksgiving. Many of our previous ornaments got destroyed. Because it was pouring I did not stick around to take a lot of photos, but I placed an ornament on the tree that says, "Matthew."
It is very meaningful to have these memorial trees planted in Mattie's honor. However, at the end of the day, this is definitely not how we envisioned our lives with Mattie. There is no amount of time that can go by which will enable us to understand or be at peace about this loss.
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