The soon to be birthday girl had a slight altercation with a table yesterday and is looking rather bruised and swollen – thankfully nothing broken but she is looking rather beaten up – hoping the swelling goes down by party day! And to think she wasn’t even doing anything silly just bending down to pick something up and smacked her poor little nose into the edge of the coffee table. Poor little muffin!!

Today is our precious angel in heaven Laura’s seventh birthday.

Seems like just yesterday but then again it feels like a lifetime ago that she entered our life.

This morning as we were getting ready for school I said to the girls “Guess whose birthday it is today”. Sienna answered “I know it is Laura’s birthday”. Sofia says “which Laura (as we know a couple of Laura’s)” and Sienna answer “you know, Laura in heaven, our sister”. Sofia then says “oh mummy can we go to heaven and see her and have a party”. “No we can’t go to heaven to see her but we will go to her special place and take balloons and presents”.

I am so pleased that my girls see her as an important part of our family. Sienna will always include here in her drawings of the family and talks about her all the time.

I vividly remember the deep hole I was in just 7 short years ago after we lost Laura and I could not imagine how life would ever recover. I am so grateful that I was able to go on have 3 more beautiful and healthy girls who have made that recovery so so sweet. While we will never forget Laura life has gone on to be just wonderful and she will act as our reminder of just how wonderful life with our girls is.

Here are some photos of us this afternoon at “Laura’s Place” leaving special gifts and importantly smiling as we remember her.