Grace would have been 2 yesterday. It was a good day, but dreary and cold weather helped maintain the tone that we already had in our hearts. We ran off to Cincy just to keep ourselves occupied. It is hard to be overwhelmingly sad when you’re toting around Ellie, but it is also hard to imagine her with a big sister celebrating a birthday.

Chris went out to lunch with someone the day before that had a 2 year old born just a month or so away from Gracie. It was a weird lunch meeting because she just lost a baby that was a month away from Ellie’s age. She was there seeing Ellie and wishing her daughter was there, and I don’t know if Chris thought about it, but when she told me the stories about the 2 year old interacting with Ellie, I immediately realized that she should be doing that every day. What a strange lunch.

For anyone out there that remembered, but didn’t call…next year, you should call. There isn’t any right thing to say, but just let us know you were thinking of us.