Episode 358: The Conversation that Keeps Us - Payton's Mom

Losing a Child: Always Andy's Mom · Jul 23, 2026 · 57m

Payton loved rainbows.

She knew all the colors, knew them in order, and would paint them perfectly every time. But she always added a pink line at the bottom, because she simply could not understand why pink was not already there. Every single rainbow she ever painted had that extra pink line.

The Friday before she died, she painted one more. It was still drying on the easel at her Christian school when her class came in on Monday morning.

Payton was five years old, a ray of sunshine with bright blue eyes and blonde hair, the kind of little girl who would run up to someone she had never met…