A decade ago...
As I sit on my front porch, listening to the birds chirp, and watching the sun slowly fade away, I cannot help but think about my Mom. 10 years ago today she passed away. And I know what some of you may be thinking, "Oh gosh, not another post about your Mom". But how else do we keep her memory alive, if we stop talking about her, posting about her and remembering her? The day she died, we didn't just lose her, we lost a decade of Birthdays, Christmases, Easter Sundays, Mothers Days; we lost a decade of memories with her. There will always be an empty seat at the table, and it's not something that is easy to get over. As we were going through old photos the other day, my youngest, who was just a few moths old at the time she passed away, picked up a picture that had Mom in it and looks at me and asks, "Who's this?" And it dawned on me then that even though she's heard about her MawMaw her whole life, and has photos of her, she doesn't