Monday, August 27, 2012
Now that our new website is up and running, we want to keep you up to date with all things Angel Pillows Project.
First, I'd like to introduce myself. My name is Sandy Riggs and the Angel Pillows Project is my baby and my passion.
The back story: In November 1986, I gave birth to a beautiful six pound twelve ounce baby boy. My husband, Randy, and I named him David. He was a happy little guy who brought us enormous joy and we felt blessed to have him in our family. He was healthy, he was full of energy, he was funny, he was loving and then the unthinkable happened. He died. At age five years and five months old, we had to say "good-bye for now" and bury our only son. I was devastated.
I am currently working with a co-writer on telling David's life story and I hope you will get a chance to know him and love him. I'll keep you updated on how the book is coming along, but I anticipate it will be quite some time until it written and polished enough to publish. After all these years, it still hurts to think about what happened to him, but I determined a long time ago to focus on the happy memories I have of him and live my life so that he would be proud of me. I believe he is not so far away in spirit.
The Angel Pillows Project idea came to me one sleepless night ten years ago. It was exactly ten years to the day that we had buried David and my heart was aching. I prayed for inspiration and a way to make something good come out of the sadness. The Angel Pillows Project was born!
At first, the idea was to design and cross stitch small pillows with angels on them and give them as gifts to mommies (and daddies) who were suffering the loss of their children in honor and memory of their children. I formed a group on Yahoo.com and in MSN groups and "met" many moms and some dads and got the word out about the pillows. Fast forward to 2012 and I have shared hundreds of angel pillows with grieving moms, dads, grandparents and children. The project even expanded to other areas, which I will write about in my next entry. Stay tuned!
