Adelle - Our Angel Baby

Somewhere in between not sleeping and reoccuring nightmares, I had a wonderful dream...

A beautiful orange butterfly, more beautiful than a Monarch, fluttered around me.  It came closer to me, and put it's little feet on my neck - it felt a lot like a baby's hand.  I was afraid then and started swatting it away.  I remember thinking I should stop doing that. just before I came to full consciousness, I looked back and saw the buttefly hiding (but not completely) behind a thin white post. I know it was Adelle giving me a sign... telling me that she is still near. 

You can choose to believe this or not.  I didn't realize the significance of the dream until I started telling some friends about it.  When I looked up, one of them was teary-eyed.  She said that a friend of her's had a similar dream about a butterfly shortly after the death of his daughter a few years ago.  Also, in reading "Angel Babies" by Patricia Seaver McGivern (a book that I highly recommend for anyone who has lost a baby), a father tells of a dream that he had of a butterfly and knowing that is was his baby. 

There are some people who will argue that dreams are a part of our sub-conscience and that this dream was nothing more.  But I felt such peace and love upon seeing that butterfly and hope that no one will take away that moment and that feeling from a greiving mother...