My wardrobe includes purple

I don't think I've ever owned any purple clothing. I have a white shirt with purple lettering that pokes fun at the Vikings' empty trophy case, but that's as close as I've gotten.

I now have a couple of purple shirts thanks to a stop at a mall on our trip home from Duluth yesterday.


You probably know by now from my post on Thursday that we decided for a number of reasons that Kaylee Hope's favorite color is purple.

Yesterday my mom changed her blog color to purple and said, "From now until Kaylee Hope's birth, or her death, whichever comes first, my blog will be purple and I am going to wear something purple." Soon others started telling us they were wearing purple for our little girl too. My Aunt Kari changed her Facebook profile picture to purple.

Keira's in on the fun too:


Jamie noted yesterday that when she was a little girl, all she would wear is purple. When she was 18 months old she would change her clothes if she wasn't dressed in purple. I love to see the color come back around with our little girl.

I don't have enough purple in my wardrobe to wear purple every day, but I am hoping Jamie can at least make me a purple bracelet to wear.

I still hate the Vikings, but thanks to Kaylee Hope, I now love purple.

Preserving the memories

I have a question especially geared towards those of you who have gone through a similar experience in losing a young child.

Jamie and I are hoping to start responding to all of the messages today as we just weren't able to get to them yesterday. We'd like to try to preserve them and create some sort of guest book for ourselves. Of course, we've received messages in multiple formats (Twitter, Facebook messages/posts/chats, text messages, emails, blog comments, blog posts, etc.) that have been tremendously uplifting and encouraging and we're trying to figure out a good way to preserve all of them.

So I'd like to know what ideas people have other than my blah, boring idea of entering all of the messages into an Excel spreadsheet. (Column A = Date/time, Column B = Sender, Column C = Message, Column D = BORING!!!)

Thanks for any suggestions!