Photo 119

Kaitlyn requested that this particular page be the photo of the day. Why?

Well...while going through some boxes at mom's, I found a recipe book that my 2nd grade class put together. Kaitlyn found it very interesting that everyone had written their favorite recipes and that is even had a recipe from me.

I got teary while looking through it and she asked me why...

Shortly after Zachary was born, this man (Joel Clayton) who I went to school with and was what seemed like the same class for years died. He had acute asthma and had an asthma attack while working at his farm during the day. He immediately went into a coma and never came out. Thomas and I visited him and his family several times during to pray for him. What makes me most sad, is that he left his childhood sweetheart behind. She was a grade behind us and they had started dating when we were Juniors. She was pregnant with their first child around the same time I was pregnant with Zachary. In fact, I bumped into Joel at the hospital during one of my routine visits. It was a sad occasion for him, though. She had just been induced to give birth to the baby stillborn. It had died in utero. So very sad to have that happend, then to tragically lose your husband a little over a year later.

So sad.

I told Kaitlyn how he died when she asked...she teared up and told me I had to take a picture of it and tell the story here.

So I did.

For her.

For him.