| Signs |
May 27, 2006 by Jena Nylec Ok, there is this song by Patty Loveless called "How can I help you say goodbye". I love this song and just made myself a cd of "Emily" songs and put this song on it. So this morning I got up and turned on the radio and that song is playing!!!! It's an old, old song and not played on the radio but there is was. I froze in my tracks and then wondered who was sending this song to me. Well I listened to the song and at the end, they said it was a special dedication to so-in-so in some southern or western state to her best friend Emily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now here's another scary part. The song was written in part by Karen Taylor-Good who also wrote another favorite of mine that I found through my Compassionate Friends group. The song is called "Precious Child". So when I just copied the lyrics for you below, I saw Karen's name and flipped out even more!!!! I guess I know now who sent me that song and hear her asking me "How can I help you say goodbye?" |
| April 3, 2006 by Jena Nylec I felt like I wasn't "hearing" Emily lately. Couldn't "feel" her like I used to and this started after her dad died. She was probably too busy yelling at him all this time. Well.... On my spring break, I went to a hotel and I was in room 1114 (her current age and her birth and death date) The day I checked into my hotel, I charged $14.14 to Amazon.com (Emily's birth and death date) Then the next day I used the internet in the hotel and it cost me $11.04 (the month and year she died) I looked at my clock my second day there and it said 9:14 (her age when she died and her birth and death date) My Lumes restaurant apple pancake on Saturday cost $11.14 (her current age and her birth and death date) My Jewel bill on Saturday night, two days before my birthday, was $38.11 (my age today which is my birthday and her age now) I saw this as an answer to my question as to where she had been lately!!! |
| November 9, 2007 by Jena Nylec I have been having a very hard time, as expected, with the 3rd anniversary of Emily's passing coming up next week. I had been talking to Emily's Uncle Scott today about all the bad luck that has seemed to come his way over the past few years...from car accidents, to injuries, to all kinds of bizarre mishaps. As we talked, we were wondering what he had done to deserve all these problems that seemed to find him. Did he do something bad to bring all this bad luck upon him? Well, after only being a bowler for 5 years, he bowled a 300 game tonight!!! I told him that our family members "upstairs" heard our conversation earlier and wanted him to know that things are not his fault and that he didn't do anything bad to bring all this bad luck upon himself. I told him that I knew it was a SIGN and he said he felt it was too. |
| More signs to come... |
Shortly after Emily died, her Aunt Angela was working at Alsip Nursery. One day she came across this display of Angel statues, about one foot tall. There were only four left. Guess what? Three of them were the same and one looked older and with longer, different hair. I think Emily was trying to say that she was with her Triplet sisters now. |
| When Emily and I lived on 194th in Mokena, Emily had a friend named Amanda who lived next door. She misses Emily terribly and recently emailed me this sign from Emily. "Oh my gosh! 2 nights ago..I was having trouble sleeping and I was like "Emily help me fall asleep.... (I miss you too and I am so sad without you, I hope you are doing fine. I love you so much. Amen). And two seconds later, I fell asleep, a deep sleep. Then yesterday I prayed to her and said " Emily please help me sleep, I'm super tired and can't fall asleep. Please wake me up around 11-ish so I can give my mom a kiss. So I slept until 11-ish and WOKE UP!! It was awesome." |
| By Jena Nylec (Emily's mom) Days after Emily's funeral was over, I was napping in her bed around 1:00pm. I had to be up at 5pm to go to an appointment but didn't set an alarm clock because I didn't think I'd sleep that long. Well I did almost oversleep but at exactly 5:00pm, I heard Emily yell "MOM" real loud. She woke me up so I wouldn't miss my appointment!!! |
By Jena Nylec On November 14, 2005, the one year anniversary of the plane crash, I was at home waiting for 12:20pm to come, which was the exact time of the crash. I was getting dressed and at exactly 12:20pm the phone rang. There was no number on caller ID and when I put the phone to my ear, there was no one there. No dial tone but no noise either. Just quiet. I could tell it wasn't the type of call where someone calls and doesn't say anything. There was just absolute quiet on the other end of the phone. I'd like to assume it was Emily calling me. |
By Jena Nylec Emily was a very good speller but one word she seemed particularly proud of being able that word written on a piece of paper on the refrigerator with her pictures. I couldn't figure out why it was such a big deal to her but maybe what it means is this... maybe she is trying to tell me NOW that she was "incoherent" when the plane crashed, meaning that she had no clue of what was happening and died in peace. |
| Shortly before Emily died, her class read the book, "Bridge to Terabithia" where a boy and girl becomes friends and then the girl dies in an accident in a river. Also, Emily and her class had been practicing for the Christmas play, which was held one month after the plane crash. Emily was supposed to play the part of the Angel in the play. I guess she took her role to heart !!! |
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5-18-2009 by Your best friend Nicole <3 A couple weeks ago I had the picture of me and her at girl scouts in fourth grade. At that time I was getting ready for school. I was also listening to music... and the song "I miss you" by Miley Cyrus came on. I had my printer in my room at the time because I needed to print a paper for social studies. Anyways when the song was halfway over my printer was seriously like going crazy! It started to print out that same exact picture of me and her in girl scouts!! The week after that it happened again!!! When I told the girls at school they were like whoa thats really weird!! We all love Emily and we miss her soooooo much!!! |
| Emily's cousin Kelsey's school ID number is 131414 This is AMAZING!!! The 13 stands for the year they graduate and the 1414 is for the day that Emily was both born and died on---the 14th of the month. This is probably one of the biggest signs that Emily has ever sent to say that she is thinking of someone. |
| I died 41 days before Christmas... which is 14 backwards... which is the number I chose to be born AND die on. hmmmmm???? |
| When the doctor placed Emily on my stomach after she was born, I was crying and said to her "I'm so sorry Emmie". I was dopped up on a loopy medication so my mind and mouth filter were off so what came out of my mouth was not edited by human screens. I believe that my soul was speaking and I was telling her that I was sorry that one or all three of us chose for her to come into our lives on this earth at this time. It was such a heartfelt "sorry". I don't feel that I was saying sorry for anything else but my explanation above. I just find it so weird that I said that to her right after she was born, that it was the first thing I said. |
| The Spring 2004 Play at Noonan Academy Emily was a butterfly !!!!! |
| The departed still speak to us, still communicate with us. They just use "sign" language. |
| Right before Emily's 8th grade graduation, one of those ads on the internet beside my email showed a red headed angel in a cap and gown. |