Daryn Worpel

Here is a picture of Daryn with her cousins, Caden and Kaila. I like this picture for a couple of reasons, one because Daryn is sitting with my kids and also because it reminds me of Daryn's sweetness. If you notice my little guy Caden had a hemangioma, the red mark on his nose. As you can imagine it provoked lots of comments and questions for his first couple years of life, What is that on his nose? When will that go away? It kind of made me start to just expect the questions and to be prepared to answer them. I was really fine with it, but after a year or so it got a little old. Daryn was probably the one and only child who never, ever asked a thing about his nose. She never asked what it was, when it would go away or anything like that. She just accepted him for who he was. I can remember times her saying, he's so cute, and I was like........thank you!!

During that time I was truly thankful for this child (who so often seemed like an adult) that just knew how to accept a person for who they are and not their physicality. Thanks Daryn for just treating him like a cousin and loving him for who he is. Another lesson to be learned from this precious person, thanks Daryn. We miss you so much and look forward to that moment we see you again. Love from Aunt Mindy

PS : All of the pictures I find of Daryn her face is beautiful, bright, and full of happiness, which I am sure describes how she exists this very moment!!