The Many Adventures of You & Me

Reusing the first.

My mom bought me a white dress,

Not red or pink or blue.

She said it was a special dress

Like very other few,

There has been just one before,

A dress now put away,

That I wore some time ago

Upon my blessing day.

As a little baby clothed

In my first white dress,

My dad held me in his arms, {I like to imagine this is how my baby girl is hanging out in heaven. My grandma and grandpa Frogley are watching over her, they know her and they are telling her about the family she will be coming in to. It makes me smile to know they have met her and are protecting her.}

There to name and bless.

So pure and clean was I just then,

With time to grow and learn

About the Father's plan for me.

My glory I must earn.

Now I've reached the age to judge

The wrong road from the right,

And I am here to be baptized

In this dress of white.

{my dad and I on my baptism day}

So once again I'm free from sin.

The path is clear to me.

I'll grasp the rod and hold on tight, I vow with certainty.

Just as mud would stain my dress,

Sin would stain my soul.

The key is to repent or bleach,

For whiteness is my goal.

And if I try my very best

Then richly blessed I'll be,

Wearing inside God's holy house

White dress number three,

So today I make this pledge:

I'll strive to choose the right,

Through this sacred baptism ordinance

In my second dress of white.

(Linda Gay Perry Nelson, 1993)

I have now had the chance to have all 3 of my white dresses and I am excited to share my very first one with my daughter.

This is my blessing dress from 26 years ago, when I told my mom I was having a girl she immediately said "we need to go find a blessing dress"

I told her I wanted baby H to wear mine, she agreed and got to work making sure mine was in perfect condition.