A Blooming Reminder

In less than a week, on July 1st, the one-year anniversary of Lexi's passing will be upon us. The year has been difficult, as we experienced many "firsts" without her: school starting, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, her birthday, Chelsea's birthday, Mother's day, Father's day, etc.

Her memorial service was July 9th last year. And that day we came home from the service and found a beautiful sight in our yard, something that I found to be amazing. Out of no where, a PINK gladiolus flower bloomed tall and strong in our planter. In the twelve years that we have lived in our house, we have NEVER had any gladiolus flowers on our property. Amidst our sadness at coming home without Lexi, that day we were greeted by a wonderful pink reminder of our little girl. The flower bloomed for a long time, without any tending by me. It eventually died and disappeared and I didn't think of it again.

The other day, we came home and there stood the pink gladiolus flower blooming again in the exact same spot. It was if to remind us, especially in the nearing of the one-year anniversary, that our little girl is alive and blooming . . . in heaven! I love seeing that pink gladiolus each day and am amazed at its height- standing taller than any of the other flowers in our planter.

Here is a picture I took a few days ago. Today, it stands even taller.