Tess Bless 2007

So this last weekend something special happened. Mom and Papa invited all these people over to the house (they even cleaned up before people got there). Anyway, they were all people i've met before- some even hang out with me when Mom and Papa aren't around. So we stood in a circle for a minute and everyone, even I, was quiet. Then Mom talked about my placenta, and how the hospital people threw it away so we couldn't plant it with my tree. Mom was sad, but she said that we were making a symbolic placenta for me here.

Then people started to kneel down and talk to me. Oh, they said such nice things. Some people even cried, but I smiled at them so they'd feel better.


Then, after all the nice people were done saying loving things to me, Papa made a fire and we burned the papers that had all the blessings on them. Mama said that this way we could plant the ashes with my tree and someday the blessings for me would become part of my tree!


After the fire was out Papa planted my new tree with some help from our friends. It's an American Plum- Grampa Doug said that it would have sweet fruit because I'm so sweet.


After all the planting was over, tons of people showed up. I recognized some of their voices from when i was on the Inside. We partied down somethin' fierce!