Chelsea, 4, has very vivid memories of her daddy, Kevin, who, as Chelsea says, was taken to “live in heaven with God” when she was not quite 2 years old. In fact, Chelsea has her own special way of communicating with her father. She sends him presents, every chance she gets. Unlike most children, who upon receiving a helium balloon tie it to their wrist so it doesn’t float away, Chelsea always lets hers go. She stands, then, watching it float up and up until she can’t see it anymore. Then, as she tells her mom, she knows “Daddy has it in heaven.”
Chelsea’s little sister Natalie, 3, asked her big sister, “When I get to heaven, Chelsea, how will I know Daddy?”
Chelsea simply answered, “Just look for the man holding all the balloons. That’s Daddy.”
—Joan Finch
