((((Lori))))

This is for you Lori:

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Lori,
I wasn't active at the KT when your mom passed away (belated hugs to you), but I still remember you posting pics of your dad's funeral. Hope you have an event-free yeat ~
Rita

Sounds like you could use some "puppy snuggle" time! That ought to chase the 'sads' away. ((((Lori))))

Gee Lori, I didn't realize you've lost so many family members that were so close to you. I must not have been here yet on your brother and dads passing. I know holidays and anniversaries are hard. (((Lori)))
Leslie

Just keep your distance from me, OK? ;) Gosh, the year has gone by quickly, Lori. I'm glad you made it thru the holidays unscathed and with a healthy attitude.

((((((((Lori))))))))
I still miss my Dad after 16 years. You are due for a good year this year.

((((((Lori))))))))))) I lost Mom and Dad in the same year...I can sympathize!!

Lots of hugs for you!
I know how hard it was and I am sure still is at times.

Two years this Oct I lost my Mom Lori I cant imange loosing that many in your family in that short of time and also that time of year.
We have to learn to not miss them Lori they are in a much better place now and at peace and I am sure they are looking after us and still worrying about us!!!Hugs for you and I will hurry up with the angels I think you need them but please email me your addr imabest@missvalley.com
hugs and more hugs for you my friend!!!!! Kathy

It's funny how we count the hours, days, months and years since the loss of a loved one. I do the same thing with my Mom's death.

Lori, I don't know where you found the strength after so much heartache and loss especially of loved ones so close to you. So many in a short amount of time.

I can imagine those holidays give you cause for thought.

Hugs

Anne

Thank you everyone.
I had a pretty teary day yesterday.
Dad, Mom and Terry are okay, I am certain of this, far better off than they were in this world.
My sadness, I have to admit, is for me.
My sadness is because I feel I've been abandoned.
I know.
I have a husband who love me and kids who I THINK love me but there will never be no one more constant in our lives (if we are the fortunate ones!) who love us unconditionally than our parents. They were my first and best 'security' and now they are gone. "You're IT Sparky" I told Custer at Mom's graveside. "You are my rock now and I hope you're up to it."

One of the hardest things I dealt with in the past year was seeing someone else living in the house I grew up in. Until last month I would drive the long way to the ranch to avoid Dad and Mom's house. In my mind it's sacrilegious someone is sleeping in THEIR bedroom, sleeping in MY bedroom and eating in OUR kitchen, looking out the big picture window Dad put at the back of the house in the kitchen so he could sit at the table and see 'his' world (the barn, shop, corrals and three pastures with his horses and cattle in them).

It's hard.
I appreciate your friendship.
If I turn into a big blubbering baby or seem a little out of sorts in the next few days....that's why. That's NOT an excuse...but just the way it is...

Lori

Hugs to you, Lori.

Ron

Aww...Lori! I'm so sorry that things have been so tough for you, girl. For awhile everytime Twinkie and I stayed the night at the hospital with a family member - they died that night! People were asking us not to stay with them! LOL

We were with my uncle, Twinkie's mom and my dad all the night they died. It was hard to go through. I can only imagine how bad it is to do it during the holidays.

You just sniffle and cry whenever you feel like it. Tears are healing!

oh lori sure know how you feel! we just were getting ready for thanksgiving and dh's uncle was hospitalized..thought we should go and by the time we arrived he's passed...
almost got to chrsitmas and dh's aunt (sister to uncle) passed...so it was a mad dash after christmas back again. this time we were there for services. dh's dad is the only living sibling left...and he's really depressed...they're all in their 80's...

i do hope you and we have an uneventful year!

Lori, my heart goes out to you. I know all too well what it's like to lose family like that.

Back in early 1970 my first hubs and I were planning our wedding, to be held in the Spring of 1971. His father, although a chemist, had a beautiful singing voice and had even had an album released. John was going to sing at our wedding...

Then, suddenly in April of '70, John died of a heart attack. So, we decided that no one would sing at our wedding if it couldn't be John.

Then, at the end of July '70, my mother died. So, there'd be no mother of the bride. (And she died less than two weeks before our birthdays - mine was the day before hers.)

One month and three days after Mama died, my father died. Within 5 months we lost his father and both of my parents.

Our wedding had gone from a big church wedding with all the bells and whistles, to one with no singer, no mother of the bride, no father to walk me down the aisle... So we said "to heck with this" and got married in December of '70 in his mother's living room, with just immediate family (what was left of 'em) in attendance.

And in December of '80, he died of a malignant brain tumor.

Sometimes you just have to hang onto the good memories...

Lori...even though it is a year later, I'm so sorry for your loss. (((Lori))))

(((((Lori)))))

I had a Grandpa and my favorite uncle (grandpa's SIL twice!) both die on New Years Day (in different years). I'm kind of scared every New Years now, not knowing if someone else will go on that day.

I know the feeling...my mom has been gone 7 years and my dad 3 years, I still can't go by their old house. Just feels weird to me. I hope you can get over the sadness, it took me a long time too.

They say "time heals all wounds" but they surely leave a big old scar sometimes, don't they? Sending special thoughts and good wishes for you in 2008, Lori. It's like the month of February in our family. My little grandson died on Feb.22, my FIL on Feb. 13, my neighbor on FEB. 10 and my granddaughter on Feb. 25. Altho' this happened over a period of several years, it is hard to get through the month of February at our house. ((((Lori))))