Butterfly Memorial Garden Day

On June 6th, 2009 it will be Gretta's 3rd Birthday. It would have been.

It has been 8 months now since Gretta went home to be with Jesus. I think of her all the time of course and often wonder what she is doing in Heaven. Who she is playing with, where she is climbing to, if she is talking now, if she is still 2, or if she is growing. Most of those wonderings I will not know until I too reach the gate of Heaven. I have to admit, I cannot wait to get there.

When Gretta first died, I have to say, I wanted to go too. Maybe I just wanted to "check on her", maybe I just wanted to be with her. I did want to be with her, so badly. Now, at least most days, I want to get to Heaven to see my Saviour and seeing Gretta there too will be wonderful. As I said in my last blog, 'This world is no longer my home'. I anticipate my eternal home everyday and this has changed so much about the way I live and why I am here.

Well, that is the update. Now for the Butterfly Garden.

As you can see, the "Butterfly" has become a sort of theme around Gretta and that has everything to do with the ring that Matthew (her dad) gave me. Each of my children have a "mothers ring", that I wear for now, but they will recieve it when they come of age. Ironically, (Gretta's ring is a butterfly with the June stone for her birthday), Matt purchased my mothers ring for Gretta before getting me one for Russell's birth. I got Russell's ring months after I got Gretta's. It was a good thing, because if it would have been the other way around, who knows .

Anyway, on June 6th we are having a Butterfly Memorial Garden Day at our new home in Zimmerman, MN. We have yet to finalize the purchase of this home in Zimmerman, but all signs point to this being our new home on May 26th.

In honor of Gretta Claire Wyman we will come together for a potluck bbq, it will be all day, anytime. We will design a garden that attracts butterflies, with a bench (donated by grandparents), a rock inscripted with Gretta's name and a butterfly (donated by Auntie Jen and Uncle Brian), a birdbath (Matt and I), plants (cousin Billie and hubby) etc.

If anyone would like to donate a plant, tree, stone, whatever; to be put in the garden, you are welcome to do so but I am not asking for anyone to do that. I just want anyone to feel like a participant if they so desire to. (If we were to move at anytime, the garden goes with us.)

Whether you want to donate something or not, if you would like to come be with us on Gretta's Birthday, June 6th, 2009, please come. We will laugh, cry, share, and remember and generally with my family, we will have a good time. I want anyone who wants to be there to come and anyone who doesn't want to come, to not worry about it.

This day, will be to remember Gretta and also to celebrate God's Greatness, His Plan and Purpose and signify our family moving forward, not forgetting, but moving forward.

We miss Gretta so dearly, we want to keep her alive in hearts and we wait with the Hope of Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Man, until we meet again.