Three

Happy 3rd Birthday Monkey. We miss you more than words can say. We'll be laying low today, but celebrating in our own little way. It's hard to believe just three years ago you entered this world. It seems like a whole lifetime ago. You made us parents and changed us forever, in which we'll be forever grateful. I so desperately wish we had been preparing for a big Birthday party at our house tonight, but instead, your little brother and I went and decorated your headstone yesterday. Your dad and I will be thinking of you, and hoping you've never been happier.

Joseph Smith rightly taught:

"The mother who laid down her little child, being deprived of the privilege, the joy, and the satisfaction of bringing it up to manhood or womanhood in this world, would, after the resurrection, have all the joy, satisfaction, and pleasure, and even more than it would have been possible to have had in mortality, in seeing her child grow to the full measure of stature of it's spirit...When she does it there, it will be with the certain knowledge that the results will be without failure; whereas here, the results are unknown until after we have passed the test."

That's what I'm leaning on today.

Love you,
Mom and Dad