Mothers Day

Today was a day that is especially hard for those of us that have lost our dear children for the time being. Even though we may have other children, no matter what, you cannot replace a child. Each of our children hold a special place in our hearts. Compassionate friends got together on Friday night and had a dinner and made candles to light for their children that have departed. The secret of getting through this cloud of darkness is to stick together! That is what Mothers of Angels and Compassionate friends is all about! Sticking together! It is so much easier than trying to go it alone! I am so grateful that scrapbooking is such a great way to keep and treasure our sweet memories forever! No matter who you are or where you are, remember, you are not alone! I truly believe our children are watching out for us and would wrap their arms around us if they could! How I miss those big bear hugs from my Zachary and his squishy kisses! Even though he was 15 when he left me, he always hugged and kissed me goodbye. Those memories are priceless and I have taken a picture in my mind of them. I am positive that all of you have had the same experiences. Today I am especially grateful for everyone that has donated or continues to donate to our cause. If only I could find the words to express my appreciation to all of you! I found this quote that I absolutely love and I feel like it very much applies to our individual situations.

If ever there is a tomorrow when we're not together...there is something you must always remember! You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think! But the MOST important thing is, even is we're apart, I'll ALWAYS be with you! ........Christoper Robin

I hope that we can always remember that our priceless children are only a breath away and love us dearly. I believe they watch over us much more than we know. Another day has passed and we all made it through it. I hope you have all taken pictures to scrapbook so you can look back at previous Mothers Days and know that "Because we have someone in Heaven, there is a little bit of Heaven in our home!

Love to all of you!
Marcie-founder of Mothers of Angels

Thank you IMAGINISCE!!!!

The Fed Ex man just delivered 4 BOXES of paper from Imaginisce! When he drove up to my house and started unloading all of these boxes, I couldn't imagine what I had ordered! When he brought them in and I opened one my jaw just dropped!!!! It was completely FULL of beautiful Imaginisce paper!!!! The other boxes contained more paper and embellishments!!!! I seriously started to cry! So many women will benefit from this donation! This is what Mothers of Angels is all about....saving our precious memories! Some of us were allowed more time with our children than others, but ALL of our memories are so very precious as this is all we get for now. Our memories are "Our Roses in December!" Being able to put our cherished pictures and journaling our memories on such beautiful paper makes them even more meaningful! There just are not enough words to express how grateful I am feeling right now for Imaginisce. They ALWAYS come through when we need them! When the ladies get their hands on all of this, I can promise you, there will not be a dry eye! Losing a child or children is so extremely difficult...no one could understand unless they have been through it. But having such an amazing company behind us that empathizes with our pain and grief and wants to help us preserve our treasures makes such a difference to all of us that are dealing with this immense pain that we constantly carry in our hearts as we go on with our lives. As founder of Mothers of Angels, I can only represent all of us and say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts! We LOVE you! If there is anyone out there that is not local but has lost a child, I would be more than happy to send you a package of scrapbook supplies so you are able to scrapbook your treasured pictures as well! XOXOXOXO IMAGINISCE!!!

Thank you Echo Park!

I hope everyone has discovered the awesomeness of Echo Park! They generously sent some kits to our group which are are very much appreciated! Truly, they are some of the cutest papers I have ever seen and very easy to work with! Thank you so much Madison for your generosity!!! And anyone who hasn't checked out their paper, click on the icon on our page and it will take you to their page. You will see what I mean when I say "Fabulous!" Warning....potential to become addicted!!!

It was like Christmas....

Sorting through all those boxes seemed like Christmas to all of us! Everyone was thrilled with the contents! These companies had been very generous to us and with the amount of product donated, we will be able to perserve so many memories! Every time somebody opened a new box there were squeals of delight! We are very grateful as we have added some new members in the last few months and our donation tubs were empty! It took 3 of us over 4 hours to go through all the boxes and organize them. We put everything into groups so it will be easier to go through. I keep thinking that there has got to be more moms out there that we can help. If anyone knows of someone that might benefit from our group, please e-mail me so I can help them! If they live far away, I can send them a box of prouduct. Merging with Compassionate Friends has been a very good move as it keeps us meeting once a month. I can't even begin to tell you how therapeutic scrapbooking my memories of Zach is and I hear the same comment from all of the women in our group. I would love to hear any stories of your experiences and I would love to know if scrapbooking your memories is something you would like to do! Mothers of Angels is slowly reaching one grieving mom at a time. My son had written a mission statement of his before his passing...I know, weird huh! He was only 15! I have taken it on as our mission statement for our group. Caring, Compassionate, Contributing. I don't think there are more fitting words than those! Hugs to all of you and please don't be afraid to comment and let me know how our group can help you!

Huge Donation!

For this donation I had to go to Salt Lake....and when you see the pictures of my car you will know why! Lori Allred from Imagininsce organized it all! There were donations from Fancy Pants, My Minds Eye, Teresa Collins (love her!), a BUNCH from Creating Keepsakes, and even more from IMAGINISCE of course!

Can you believe how much stuff this is? My car was completely weighed down!

Of course we HAD to go to lunch at Cafe Rio! Bridget Bradley (sales manager) and Jen Meyer (marketing assistant) for Imaginisce joined Lori Allred and I. We had a blast!

Here I am with Lori Allred (Marketing Coordinator for Imaginisce) who made all of this possible! She has been a wonderful friend of mine for years and I just love her! All of us at Mothers of Angels are so grateful to her for starting this blog and getting all the donations together!

There were donations from Imaginisce (of course!) http://www.imaginisce.com/

Creating Keepsakes http:/www.creatingkeepsakes.com/index.html/

My Minds Eye http://www.mymindseye.com/

Fancy Pants http://www.fancypantsdesigns.com/

and I could never forget Teresa Collins! http://www.teresacollinsdesigns.com/

Thank you all so much! Your donations have helped us keep a great deal of the cherished memories of our children preserved forever!

stories

Hi everyone,
Anyone that has a story and would like to post it on this blog, just email it to me and I promise I will get it on here word for word! I would love to here your stories and please know that by sharing your pain it somehow divides it and makes it a little bit easier to carry. You are NOT alone!!!
Love to all,
Marcie

Wow!

Thank you to whomever anonomously dropped off a quick cut epic 6 and some fonts at Pebbles here in St.George. You are very much appreciated! I wish I could tell all of you that donate how fabulous you are and how much we appreciate each and every one of you that put items in our treasure chest! Pebbles in my pocket are so great to do this for us!

Lori,
Thank you also for sending me home with some treasures, a cuttle bug (which is loved), a circle and oval cutter and a cutter with multiple blades! Imaginisce is SO good to us! Girls, we need to get together soon and play with our toys!
Marcie
founder of Mothers Of Angels