The UPs in Grief

Butterfly Mommies is having a giveaway as a special way to get to know each other and connect...

Their prompt, What positive things have come from the loss of your baby(ies)?


A positive thing that has come as a direct result of losing Jenna, is the production of her memory Garden! I am beyond excited about it, so I thought I'd share about it for the giveaway.


Another positive thing that has been born out of this loss, is my blog design studio, called Small Bird Studio (named after my Jenna of course). I have discovered my LOVE for designing blogs... SO....MUCH...FUN!!!


well about the garden...

Saturday was the epitome of a perfect day for getting the Jenna garden started. I cannot describe in words how healing it was to be at the nursery (ironic to me that a place called a nursery is healing). I was there probably 2-3 hours. I really lost track of time and had no place else to be - it was FABULOUS. The name of this nursery is Arbor Gate. They carry your normal gardening flowers and such, but their assortment and variety far outweighs that of big chain nurseries down here. I filled up two wagon fulls of all sorts of flowers and shrubs. Mostly flowers.

I will someday soon share the names of the flowers, but for now I don't remember most of them! I just spent an absorbent amount of time reading the labels and the "planting directions" on each one. (I am ridiculously lost at this whole gardening scene).

I found a flower called a fuchsia. Yes, a FUCHSIA! And I bought a ton of them!

I didn't take a pic of the ones I have yet, but here is what they look like! Aren't they lovely???

So the garden looked something like this before we began planting...

 

I hope you can see how it is in the shape of angel wings... It was hard to get a full pic

  

And a walkway :) :) :) I anticipate many days spent here :)

  

I laid out all the flower pots where I wanted them...

  

  

And I had to get some GERBERAS!!! I can't wait to take Jenna some flowers from her very own garden!

Okay so this pic is not the best, but here is an almost finished product...

I did end up making another trip but this time to Home Depot to get some things we needed like fertilizer and shovels (up til this point we were using well, our hands!) Thank God the dirt was soft!

  

Here is little better pic of the almost finished Jenna garden...

 

 Colors! Colors! Colors!!!! Love it!!!

 

  

So I was beyond exhausted by the time we reached a finishing point. We literally spent all Saturday out there. I promise for better pictures soon, this morning I found puddles in my muddy backyard (new neighborhood... grass is still growing in after an unusually cold winter for Texas). I will get out there and get some more pics when the dirt dries up :)