Each year on May 28, we honor my mom's journey to heaven with a tradition of sending her balloons. Some years, our family is all together so our balloons ascend together, other years we are in different places and our balloons find her from near and far.
We tied them together this year, and thanked her for the beautiful blessings we have received in the days leading up to the anniversary of her passing. She would have loved more than anything to hold our baby girl and my sister's baby boy in her arms, and hop down on the ground to play trucks with her grandson. And so we try our best to live a good life for her, thank her for all she taught us, and know deep down that her gentle spirit and kind heart lives on in me and my siblings, and her grandchildren.
My beautiful mom with me as a newborn. Sadie shares my mom's middle name of Jane, and we think might be just the right twist on Sally.
Sending balloons up to Miss Sally this year from Alexandria. xo
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