Nie Nie

It's 11:14 at night and I'm sitting on my couch waiting for the ibuprofen to kick in and eating german chocolate cookies. On Friday (mind you while I was at work) I decided that I would look at some of my friends blogs to read new posts. After looking at my friend Taniels blog- I wished I hadn't, because I found myself crying and blocking out work.

I found her newest post about Christian and Stephanie Nielson a young couple with 4 young children (who were luckily not on the plane) and how they had been in a tragic plane crash in Arizona on August 16th 2008. Christian was burned on about 30 % of his body and Stephanie was burned on 80% of her body. Taniels blog directed you to the nieniedialogues.blogspot.com Stephanie's blog about her family and motherhood. I have spent the last 2 days reading every single post (and going through a box a kleenex) from 2005 to just recent.

It has left me very emotional. I already am emotional when it comes to tender moments of greatness so tragedy with triumph makes me even more emotional. It awoke in me a sense of change to be better, make every day great, make mental pictures of every small thing. It makes me excited for kids of my own some day and excited for the hope of a companion who will love me always and unconditionally.

I may never meet Stephanie (nie nie) or Christian but they have touched me and I hoped that I could pass their example to others by posting this on my blog. I hope that you find an hour or a day here and there to visit Stephanie's blog. I at first felt like I was intruding on someone else's family privacy but soon found myself feeling a part of her family. Thousands read her blog before her accident and now over 20,000 read her blog. I will from here on out be one of them. So go ahead and make the effort to read, and become a fan of the nie nie dialogues.