Counting the Days

431 days. 10,344 hours. 620,640 minutes. 37,238,400 seconds. That is how long it has been since my daughter has been gone. Funny how we parents of deceased children count days, minutes, hours and even seconds now. Time. We have so much of it now. So much of it has passed and so much of it is yet to come.

Lessons

Whoa what an emotional week I have had.  Wednesday was the first day of school for my kids and what SHOULD have been Skylar's first day of her Senior year....ahhh the year she'd been dreaming of for so l

There was supposed to be advantages to having teenage parents

Growing up, I was faced with many challenges being the product of a teenage pregnancy. No matter how many challenges I faced, one of the positives that I thought was a given was that I would grow old and grey with my parents (all of them). We would struggle when I was younger, yes; but as I got older our relationships grew stronger and the bond was greater.

For my dad

Hello forever,

I've lived a beautiful life.

Although it seems forever may have come too soon to those I have left behind, my eternity has come.

My time on earth is done.

Memories are a treasure,