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Nicholas Albert Haider

Born: Wednesday, May 5th, 2004 12:54 PM

Weight: 9 lbs 4 oz Length: 21 3/4 inches

Journal

Friday, July 4, 2008 12:43 AM CDT

Thanks to all of you who sent me ideas for things I could hang in my entryway to honor Nicholas. I ended up finding two sayings/pictures from story people (http://www.storypeople.com) while I was in Galena, IL with some friends. I still haven’t framed them or hung them on the wall, but I will soon.

Here’s what they say:
Wish List: I wish you could have been there for the sun & the rain & the long, hard hills. For the sound of a thousand conversations scattered along the road. For the people laughing & crying & remembering at the end. But, mainly, I wish you could have been there.

Perfect Stranger: I held him close for only a short time, but after he was gone, I'd see his smile on the face of a perfect stranger & I knew he would be there with me all the rest of my days.

I liked that these sayings could mean many different things, not just something about a child dying. Although that’s how I interpret them. Check out the website if you have a chance. There a many different sayings for just about anything you might think of.

Steve and I finally bought a headstone, or monument as those in the funeral and cemetery business call them, for our plots at Resurrection Cemetery. I’ve made two trips to the cemetery office in the last month. Although each trip was somewhat surreal because of the different place in life I am now compared to the last time I was in that office, it was still draining and depressing. Both times I saw families of middle aged and more-than-middle aged people talking over their family member’s funeral/burial plans with cemetery staff, and I guess I found comfort knowing that at least we already have our plots---and now a shiny new headstone---so our kids need only to arrange when we’ll be buried and when our names and dates will be engraved. Hopefully that won’t be for a long, long time ; )

Dean at the cemetery tells me the monument will be installed some time in the fall, so don’t go out there to look for it until then.

-Theresa

Hospital Information:

Fairview University Medical Center
2450 Riverside Campus
Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-672-6000

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E-mail Author: theresahaider@gmail.com

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