Butterflies For All Occasions
by Kimberly Hargrove
It was Mothers Day 2001 and I woke up crying! My heart was so heavy….how could it be that my son was gone from me! This was going to be a very hard day….and I continued to weep throughout the morning. I asked Christopher to please send me a sign…I needed desperately to know he was around me. Later as I stood at my backdoor, I could see that there were dozens of beautiful red and black Monarch butterflies everywhere. We don’t normally have those in West Texas….and I have absolutely NO flowers that they would be attracted to if we did. Was this my sign from Chris? About 30 minutes later, I again went to the backdoor. There were still butterflies all over the backyard. There were also dozens of butterflies all the way across town at my fiancée’s house that afternoon. My friend commented on “how strange it was for there to be so many butterflies everywhere”. I told her I had asked Christopher for a sign, and she said, “Well honey, I think you got it”. And as we discussed, it would be typical of Christopher to overdo it to get my attention…so I was thinking, maybe that was my sign.
The next morning at work I was still crying. I decided to leave and get out of the office for a while. As I was walking down the sidewalk towards my car there were two butterflies fluttering around. They followed me and more or less “danced over my car”. I took off driving and there were just dozens of butterflies flying all over everywhere. It was if they just encircled my car, and ME when I got out of my car. This just had to be my son telling me he was right there with me. It seemed that the harder I cried, the more butterflies there were.
My birthday was June 24, 2001. Again, I woke up crying! It was the first time in 20 years that I had a birthday without Christopher there. I asked him first thing that morning for a sign. I said, “Christopher, it would sure be nice to have a sign from you today baby. But I have to know FOR SURE it is you….no second guessing.” About an hour later I went to my backdoor and just stood there crying. All of the sudden, one beautiful butterfly fluttered right up to me and just sort of hovered there. As I came back into my house, this butterfly flew in the backdoor also. It flew through my kitchen, down the hall, and into my office….which was Christopher’s old bedroom. The butterfly flew all over the room, as if checking it out. Then it landed on my computer for a minute. I was crying really hard at that point, and started back towards the kitchen. The butterfly followed me…and when I opened up the backdoor, he flew outside and just kind of fluttered there for a minute before flying off. My sign from my baby on my birthday?
Christopher’s 1-year heaven date and his 21st birthday was August 31, 2001. Naturally I got up very emotional that morning too. I asked him for a sign that day too. (Of course I asked for a butterfly:) I got several signs that day…but the one that touched me the most came as we were preparing to drive out to the cemetery. We were walking to the car and a beautiful red and black Monarch butterfly landed on my shirt and just fluttered there. When that happened, I said “Christopher is here”. Yes, I most certainly believe that Christopher sends me butterflies for all occasions.
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