A Walk to Remember

Yesterday, Mack, my mom, my brother and I participated in the annual Walk to Remember in San Angelo. We met at a park close to the Women and Children's Center and read a few passages and then walked from the park to the Baby Rose Garden at the hospital. Once we got to the rose garden, we listened to a few songs and passages and then planted a rose bush. Before the rose bush was put into the ground everyone got to write the names of babies they had lost on a small yellow piece of paper and put it in the ground. There ceremony was short a sweet, and had such a wonderful outcome.
You never realize how common it is to lose a child until it happens to you or someone close to you. I know everyone thinks of October as Breast Cancer Awareness month, however in 1988 President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the month of October as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month. So I hope by getting the word out there, everyone realizes these things happen too often, and I hope and pray people keep those families in mind who have lost a child.