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Ways You Can Help
Angie and Todd prepared some details in case God decided to take Audrey to heaven after she was born. Angie asked that I share the following:The family will have a private burial service next week. Please respect their wishes for this and be in prayer regarding this time they will spend together as a family, honoring Audrey and her story.All are invited to attend a memorial service for Audrey on Sunday, April 20 at 2 pm (central time) at:Grace Community Church5711 Granny White PikeBrentwood, TN 37027In lieu of flowers, the Smiths ask that donations be made to the Hope Clinic for Women, a...
Maternity Photos
Late last week the Smiths had some beautiful maternity portraits taken of Angie and the family. The photos were taken by their friend Tom Uchida of Uchida Photography.Below is one of their favorites. As you can see Tom is an AMAZING photographer. Please visit the Uchida website and click on Audrey Caroline Maternity to see more pictures of Angie, Todd and their sweet girls. You are going to LOVE...
Your Comments, Emails and Letters
Hello all - this is Jessica posting (a friend of Angie's, for those who are new to the blog). I have great news to share - Angie is going home from the hospital today! Originally, the doctors told her she would go home Thursday, so getting to go home a day early is a big blessing. Thank you for your continued prayers of healing for her body.Angie and Todd have been blown away by the reach of Audrey's story, just in the past three days. This blog has received hits from every state in the US and more than 90 countries! Much of the traffic has come from others referring people to the site -...
A Letter to My Daughter
Sweet Audrey,There are no words I could say in this letter that would be able to express what you are to us, but I feel compelled to write them anyway. Do you know you changed the world?From the day we found out we were expecting you, we knew that God had chosen you for our family. When we started feeling you move around, we invented stories about who you would be. We took bets on whether you were a boy or a girl (daddy was wrong!). Abby and Ellie set aside toys that they wanted to give to you. Your daddy let me buy books at the bookstore about being pregnant, even...
Blossom
Good news...I'm not spam!!! I cannot believe how many of you wrote to me to tell me that you wanted me to know you were still praying for me. I have needed and appreciated those words more than you will ever know during the past days. There is much too much to fit here…I feel like I am walking around in a dream most of the time. The last 2 weeks have been some of the hardest I have ever experienced. I am still sifting the moments, the memories, and the loss. Trying to figure out where it all goes in my life, and how in the world I am supposed to watch my kids play at the park and not just...
Slideshow
A few weeks ago, I mentioned a song that I had written with Todd and our friend Christa Wells. Amy Perry (who sings in Selah) has a sweet, talented husband named Jake who is pursuing video production in California (in addition to being a Mac genius. I'm not kidding-that's his title. 🙂 ), and he was kind enough to put these pictures into a slideshow for us to show at Audrey's memorial service. you can contact him at archiveproduction@gmail.com if you are in need of video help (or just to tell him how great he is!)It has been a prayer from the deepest part of me that God would use...
Cross Point Video
Today has been a day of loss and hurt. I have spent most of the day in tears, for many different reasons. I am still processing what God has brought to me, and the way that I will carry it. I am so, so tired, but I will try to post tomorrow, because I really feel like I need prayer. For now I wanted to pass this along. Allan (from Selah) goes to a great church here, and his pastor made a video of our story that they showed yesterday in church. I think they did a great job, and was honored to be a part of what turned out to be a beautiful day of celebrating God's goodness and...
Tilted
A few months ago, I got an email from a girl named Sara. As I read her words, I was struck by the incredible similarities between our stories. She was pregnant with a little boy (Elliot) who had kidneys that were nonfunctioning, lack of lung development, in a breech position, no amniotic fluid...you get the picture. Oh, and also, we had the EXACT same due date. I wrote her back, and what started as a few words back and forth turned into a source of strength for both of us. We were not alone! We talked on the phone, and after we hung up, I cried tears of...
Clay
This has been a hard week.Just six words, but they pretty much sum it up.After crying through basically every human interaction I have had for the last several days, I realized that there was something in me that needed to be broken. Something that I hadn't felt completely yet. Todd left to go on the road on Wednesday night, and I sobbed like a baby. Shaking, gasping, "why can't you be an accountant and work 9-5?" tears. I was not ready to be alone with my thoughts yet. I wasn't ready to be in charge of the kids, of the house, of anything that did not involve...
Grateful
Jessica and I got together yesterday so that she could give me my Birthday present (it's on May 19th...she's an overachiever at planning:)), and she also gave me a little grief over the fact that I hadn't updated my blog in the past week. The truth is that I just don't know what to say. This is such a strange time, because one minute I'm laughing at something someone said to me, and the next I'm crying my eyes out. I dropped off Sawyer at a kennel this morning (we are going to the beach for a week), and I couldn't stop myself from falling apart when he walked out of eyesight....
