I can't let the day go by without being thankful for Kenzie's donor. 16 years ago today, someone had to make a difficult decision in such a hard time in their lives to allow their loved one to live on through Organ Donation.
Even though her heart didnt last as long as we have hoped for, If it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have had those extra 13 years with our sweet girl.
Kenzie always loved making brownies to honor her donor, so this year, Makayla made them all by herself.
We had Kenzie's favorite dinner, had a picnic at her resting place, ate the brownies, and released balloons to her donor and to Kenzie.
As we were leaving the store after buying the balloons we ran into a sweet friend and she handed us cute little windmills to decorate Kenzie's headstones. It was so sweet and thoughtful, she had no idea what today was.
When we released the balloons one teal balloon went its own way while the others stayed together, and then it looked like it just stood still for a while, while the others kept flying away. The kids said that Kenzie was hanging on to that one, my heart loves when our children believe that Kenzie is with us when we do family things.
Myleigh also said that maybe Kenzie's friends that have also passed on were holding on to the balloons with her, as they were naming her sweet friends names they kept looking up at the balloons, watching them go up to heaven.
Grief is hard and today like these days, I love celebrating Makenzie. Maybe because I don't want to let go or it makes the day easier for me to get through the day. But whatever it is it has worked and I find myself less depressed and more how Kenzie would want me to be.
We love you, Kenzie, and we miss you so much.
Happy heartiversary sweet girl.
