In Remembrance

    The week of Valentine's Day/ my birthday I was feeling especially depressed about the lack of my third child. And I got to thinking. After our first miscarriage, we decided to honour our baby by sponsoring a child in need. But how do you choose one? They are all equally deserving... how do you narrow it down? We decided to choose one with the birth date of our lost child's due date: June 29. We chose a young boy from Guatemala whose name is Danny Alexander BaCaal. I thought he was especially fitting because his middle name, Alexander, was what we would have called our baby, had it been a boy. So we have been sponsoring Danny for 5 years now; he writes to us often and sends pictures, etc. and he holds a special place for us because of  how we came into our relationship.
     So anyway, about two weeks ago, I got to thinking about all of this, and thought that perhaps we should consider sponsoring another child to honour our second lost child. I got the girls involved and we chose a little girl named Pipi Pierrette Akossiwa Edoh from Togo whose birth date also matches our lost baby's due date (also June 29). We received her information package in the mail today, and are excited to get to know Pipi! I'm glad that a ray of light can shine for someone from the darkness that we have been through.