Mom:
Tonight I sat down with a CD your friend from work gave me shortly after you died. I haven't had the heart to go through it since your death, because I knew it was going to be extremely emotional for me.
But I bought Dad a digital photo frame for Christmas and I wanted to load some family pictures on it for him. I thought there might be some pictures of James and Marissa on the CD. I've sat here for hours tonight alternatively laughing and crying as I clicked through the 100's of pictures on this CD.
In a way, it's like one last gift from you. I had forgotten you were preparing to do scrapbooks for Josh and I from our childhoods. You were only able to get through pictures from 1974-1984. But still that's TEN years worth of memories. I mean, Josh wasn't even born until 1976, so seeing some of your wedding pictures, etc. was like peering into a part of your past I've never been familiar with.
You were beautiful, at 20 and at 65. I wish you had known it.
Thank you for loving us so much you took what must have been HOURS to scan and archive these photos for us.
I love and miss you now and always,
Sarah
But I bought Dad a digital photo frame for Christmas and I wanted to load some family pictures on it for him. I thought there might be some pictures of James and Marissa on the CD. I've sat here for hours tonight alternatively laughing and crying as I clicked through the 100's of pictures on this CD.
In a way, it's like one last gift from you. I had forgotten you were preparing to do scrapbooks for Josh and I from our childhoods. You were only able to get through pictures from 1974-1984. But still that's TEN years worth of memories. I mean, Josh wasn't even born until 1976, so seeing some of your wedding pictures, etc. was like peering into a part of your past I've never been familiar with.
You were beautiful, at 20 and at 65. I wish you had known it.
Thank you for loving us so much you took what must have been HOURS to scan and archive these photos for us.
I love and miss you now and always,
Sarah