20 Days Till Heaven…Day 6 – Disney Smells, Nurse, and Sleepover Memories from October 21st, 2016 – Day 6 This day from a year ago started off a little rough. We spoke in the morning after she sent me a text describing how she was feeling. On the call she was complaining of a terrible migraine, being super hot, and throwing up. She was borderline crying and clearly upset a little. I told her to try one of the new…
20 Days Till Heaven…Day 5 – Field Trip, Delicious Flower Bouquet, and Last Picture Memories from October 20th, 2016 – Day 5 I usually start off these daily posts with our “good morning” call, but looking into the audio files today we only had four calls recorded and the 1st one wasn’t until 5:27 pm. Out of those four calls, two were blank with no sound 🙁 and one was just me speaking, you could not hear her responding. So…
20 Days Till Heaven…Day 4 – Share The News, Happy Dwarf, and People Are Awesome Memories from October 19th, 2016 – Day 4 I felt kind of weird sitting here thinking about how to open the post for today. I was cautious when listening to the 1st call that we had recorded for today thinking that it was going to be dreadful, but surprisingly it wasn’t at all. It once again was just like any other day. Just another reminder…
20 Days Till Heaven…Day 3 – I Get To Be Happy Now, This Is A Positive Thing Memories from October 18th, 2016 – Day 3 Today Kate woke up feeling a little exhausted. This was the first time we spoke in the morning, she really just said that she was a little tired and a few other random things. She did however end our 1st call with, “I love you so much.” That made it special of course. Adding the…
20 Days Till Heaven…Day 2 – Do You Kiss Me, Co-Pays, Pinterest, and Scans Memories from October 17th, 2016 – Day 2 This day started off much like any other morning. We spoke on the phone several times throughout this day, two times during the morning. She surprisingly told me that she was feeling well. She did however say that her nose was stuffy and that she needed some water. I made mention of buying her a surprise for after…
20 Days Till Heaven…Day 1 – I’ll Try Not To Scare You and Yellow Cheese This is the 1st post in what I guess you could call a small blog series. I really have no idea what you would call it, but I am going to be sharing just some little details about the days leading up to November 4th. When I first wanted to start a blog this was the one thing that I wanted to do the most….
Grief…To Each Their Own Grief is often thought of as a static, general emotion. It’s used to describe and encompass all the feelings that someone is experiencing in reaction to a loss in just one word. You know just like the word “Love.” Love is universally used to describe an intense feeling of deep affection that we have for another person. But, it doesn’t really represent or distinguish every detail that you feel about a person, for example…when you say…
Never say you never knew… I had several thoughts last night when I was putting you guys to bed. I was looking at the both of you thinking about how you’re living life with really no idea of what’s been going on the past few years. You’re totally oblivious and innocent. But after all, that’s how it should be and I’m OK with that for now. Your biggest worries are…did I eat enough dinner to earn dessert and is Dad…
“Write what should not be forgotten.” – Isabel Allende How simple yet amazing is that quote? When I stumbled upon it I knew I had found the perfect title for my first post in this blog. Matter of fact not only is it perfect to the post below, but it also goes perfectly with the picture above that I took for the post. The above picture is of the intro page to one of the books my wife Kate wrote and…
