BLOOM Holiday Candlelight

December 4, 2025 – North Kansas City, MO

🎄 This year’s BLOOM theme was Kintsugi! 🏺 Each family was given a kintsugi ornament to take home for their own Christmas tree.  

🎄 Our Glass BLOOM Block is filled with over 250 gems, colored either Pink, Blue, or Crystal Clear.  Each gem represents a baby remembered at one of our meetings/events dating back to 1988.  Pink representing all the baby girls, blue representing the baby boys, and crystal clear representing the babies whose genders remain unknown.  For 35 years, and counting, we honor not only the babies remembered tonight, but every little life held in our hearts of our group since the very beginning.  Every story, every name, every moment of love woven into the years between then and now.  Each one belongs to our BLOOM family, always.

🎄 BLOOM support group members were able to participate in a Christmas Card Collection.  Each family brought a Christmas card for every baby in our group.  At the end of the night, everyone gathered up their cards and small gifts to take home and place inside the stockings that belong to their babies.  The emptiness of a stocking on Christmas morning can deepen the ache that the holidays often bring.  But this year, those stockings will be filled with love, remembrance, and thoughtful tokens – gentle reminders that their babies are held close in our hearts. ❤️

🎄 We enjoyed delicious food! From a wide selection of cookies, chocolate cake, a kintsugi decorated ube cheesecake, and fruit! We hope those present left with not just full stomachs, but full hearts too.  Thank you for making this year’s Candlelight a memorable event and for your presence.  As each of you is a source of comfort and strength for those who mourn alongside you.  It is an honor to walk with you, to remember with you, and to celebrate the enduring love you hold for your babies.