My Sweet Gabby,
Thank-you so much for picking Maddie from Heavens Garden especially for us and for making sure she got here safe and healthy. I know you are so proud to be a big sister and I know that you will be by her side every step she takes through this life. We so wish you could be here to grow up with her but she will grow up knowing all about you and knowing how special and lucky she is to have you, an angel, as her big sister! I love you so very much my angel girl and I miss you so much.
Love,
Mommy
To my big sister Gabby-Grace,
Thank-you so much for staying with me when i was in Mommy's belly and showing me the way to get here safe. Thank-you for picking me to send to Mommy and Daddy, they love me so much and I love them. I wish you could join me here on Earth so we could play together, but I love when you visit me and make me laugh! I love you big sissy, now and forever!
Love,
Maddie-Faith
Why we picked her name:
**Madalynn means from Magdala a disciple of Jesus. We picked this name after Mommy & Meme both had a dream on the same night about 3 months after Gabby was born, and in the dream we had a baby and her name was Madalynn.
**Faith means loyalty and belief. We picked it because we kept faith in the Lord after Gabby to give us another child
(Gabby had Grace because she was sent to us through the Grace of God since we weren't supposed to be able to get pregnant)
** Diane means divine and is Maddie's Meme's name! She has done so much for us and for Gabby, we want to honor her by nameing Madalynn after her!
A Different Child
A poem by Pandora Diane Waldron
In memory of her daughter, Madoka Marietta Rosalie
People notice there's a special glow around you.
You grow surrounded by love, never doubting you are wanted;
Just look at the pride and joy in your mother and father's eyes.
And if sometimes between the smiles,
There's a trace of tears,
One day you'll understand...
You'll understand there was once another child,
A different child who was in their hopes and dreams.
That child will never outgrow her baby clothes.
That child will never keep them up at night.
In fact, that child will never be any trouble at all,
Except sometimes, in a silent moment,
When mother and father miss so much that different child.
May hope and love wrap you warmly,
And may you learn the lesson forever --
How infinitely precious, how infinitely fragile this life on earth is.
One day, as a young woman you may see
Another mother's tears or another father's silent grief.
Then you, and you alone, will understand and offer the greatest comfort.
When all hope seems lost,
You will tell them with great compassion,
"I know how you feel. I'm only here because my parents tried again."
I Love You Big Sister
How do you love a person
Who never got to be,
Or try again to see a face
You never got to see?
How do you mourn the death of one
Who never got to live,
When there's nothing to feel good about
And nothing to forgive?
I love you, big sister.
You're a person of the wind,
Free to be the memory
Of all that might have been.
I love you, big sister,
My companion of the night,
Wandering through my lonely hours,
Beautiful and bright.
What does it mean to die before
You ever can be born,
To live the lovely night of life
And never see the dawn?
Ah! My big sister,
You lived like anyone!
Life's a burst of joy and pain,
And then, like yours, it's done.
I love you, big sister,
Just as if you'd lived for years.
No more, no less, I think of you,
The angel of my tears.
Visit Madalynn's Website
Gabby has sent to us a special gift. A Baby Sister!
Born October 3, 2008
5 lbs 15 oz 17 1/2 inches
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This page was last updated: November 11, 2008
You will need to mute the music at the bottom of the page to view the video!!!
This is Maddie's guestbook not Gabby's so please sign it as well and say HI to Maddie!
Maddie-Faith when she was born!
people have visited Gabby's little sister!
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Thank-you to angel Micah's family for the dragonfly binky!
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