Months after Lola passed I decided to try life out again. I recall walking with Louie past the ocean and thinking a new house, a new job.... These could all be good things for us. And that's exactly what we did. Moved to a great house and I decided to get a part time job back in retail. I met some wonderful friends at work, had a lot of fun and we enjoyed our new spot.
One day at work I bought a pink silk scarf, different shades of pink, it was beautiful. It was the scarf I ended up wearing for our photo shoot for the magazine article about Lola. It went perfect with her foot plaque that I tightly gripped as the photographer said "smile." I kept that scarf for years and have never worn it since that day.
Milo's teacher was requesting dress up items- anything we had that the kids could dress up and make believe in. I came across this scarf and did not think I wanted to part with it. It was a memory or connection. Since we had just moved and already donated and rummaged through our older items, I didn't have much to give. My eyes came back to the scarf and in the bag for school it went.
As months have gone on, the pink scarf makes me smile when I walk Milo into his classroom. It has been a superman cape, a skirt, a hide and seek game......and all I can think is the Lola scarf is making new memories. It's fun to see the smiles on the children's faces when they are playing with it.
Lola would have liked it.
Love-
The mother of an angel
