August 27th, 2007.
Today our little girl turned 1 year old. Dad came home early from work and we went out shopping. We picked out a beautiful tree and a stone Chinese temple to put in our backyard. We have dedicated the back corner of our yard to a beautiful woman, Faith's birth mom, Kai-Ling and over the next few years will make it a little garden/sitting area for Faith. We have placed a tree in the back corner, the Chinese temple on one side of the tree and will get a stone bench for the other side with a few small stepping stones that lead into the bench. We are going to have Kai-Ling's name and Faith's Chinese name, Chia Hui, engraved on them and each year Faith will be able to light a candle in honor of her birth mother and place the candle in the Chinese temple to burn all night. We started this tradition this year and at sunset we took Faith out to light a candle. Although she is to young to realize at this time what we are doing we know that her mom, where ever she may be, was thinking of Faith on this special day.
Kai-Ling will never understand or know how much love we have for her. How much respect and honor. We are so grateful for the beautiful baby girl she has in-trusted with us. We love her so very much and we will forever be grateful and remember her in our hearts always. She is amazing in so many ways!
THANK YOU KIA-LING!
2 comments:
what a great thing to do. what neat parents you guys are.
This is one of the most beautiful ways I have heard of to remember a birthmother in your home.
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