Our family will always have one more member to it than the outside world sees.
When someone asks me how many children I have I will always struggle to answer that question –
do they want to know how many children we have had and loved, or do they only want to know how many are here on earth? Today we have two sons, one who lives with us and one who watches over us from heaven.
When I signed a note for the first time after having lost Brody I struggled with how to honor our son, but not create something weird for the outside world. When we were anguishing with how to release our son's ashes, I saw a butterfly that gave me comfort we were on the right path. So, when I went to sign our names I signed them Kiele, Chris and Denzel. Then I added a simple handdrawn butterfly. I asked Chris what he thought about that – he looked up and said "I like it – it's a BrodyFly". And so it stuck, we can always acknowledge our full family when signing our names by including our names in print that the world knows, and a BrodyFly to represent our angel in heaven.
