Sending you cyber hugs. So, so sorry for your loss. I have a very elderly Mum too and can't even think about how painful it will be to lose her. I hope you soon find peace and healing and I wish you many joyous returns of all the happy memories you and your Mum shared over your lifetime.

I am so sorry.. The pain is still fresh for the both of us.. Your website is beautiful! He would be proud of it, I'm sure.. Remember that he will be with you during graduation. Right next to you, look for a sign, I'm sure you will see something today..I have to remind myself that Dad wouldn't want me being sad..He didn't like that..He would always try to cheer me up..Remember those moments.. I'm facing a birthday party on Sun. that I'd rather not have..But I'd have a very disappointed 6 yr old little girl if I don't do it..He loved the kids and the parties, the kids were his drive in life, one of them..He would drive 2 hrs each way to come and visit sometimes for an hour and go home..Christmas will be tough too... We had the picture perfect Night before Christmas ritual going on. He would read that story, I would put the cookies in place and hang the stockings. He would hang around while I wrapped the presents and he would help me eat cookies. Last Christmas he was sick and in the hosptial from the 14th to Jan 5th or so..Little did I know, it would be his last..I questioned it, but everyone said I was overreacting, he'll be fine..Then in April, they tried to take out the cancer and found all through out his body! I was right!!! I'm having my moments too...Good luck today.. Keep in touch. Heather

Do you feel that you made any accomplishments in your life at all? ** Oh yes, I've accomplished many things but being a wife and mother is the most important thing I'll ever do. Do you care alot about what people think of you? ** Well I do. I want to be know as a good friend, trustworthy. What is something most people donÂt know about you? ** I get anxious about things that are not worth it. Whats the most important thing in your life? ** Love! In particular for my husband, children & grandbabies. How easily are you amused? ** Not easily enough, I'm a clock watcher, even in a movie. But if Keith Urban or Kenny Chesney is involved...I barely know I have a watch on. :) Have a great day!! ** I hope it will be, you too.

Huh, when I originally posted, I was worried about getting the usual, visceral, negative reactions to the mention of Christmas MUSIC. That was what I was hesitating for. I actually have my decor ready to go, just have to execute. The music is making it hard to hold back...... It is true I need no permission from anyone to decorate. I tend to do what I like when I like. I guess its just that I do not see Thanksgiving as having a "season" like Halloween and Christmas do. Its a day. A big and important one, but not a whole season of activity like the others. I do not want to say its BORING, I love Thanksgiving day, but......well anyway. I do decorate specifically for it to give it its due...... For the record, MY calendar reads like this: 2021: Nov 1st- 24th-Christmas Nov 25th- Thanksgiving until dinner its over Nov 25th evening-Dec26th-Christmas again. And I do think that the truckers positive response is to Charlie Brown, many of them do not even recognize that it is the Thanksgiving episode until I mention it, then they are even more amused! If I were to start playing familiar Christmas movies tonight they would likely be just as thrilled. The inquiries into when I was putting up my Halloween stuff started in mid August. I think any sort of change from routine is welcome to the drivers. Especially when many of these people have been on the road, going from terminal to terminal, with stark white walls, industrial noise, necessary but tedious security checks and no cheer. Sounds miserable doesn't it? I am told by some of them that my work is the only place that they go to that really goes all out. Some do not even decorate at all! Not even a tiny tabletop Christmas tree! Ugh! I would HATE to work somewhere like that during the holidays! My SO shocked me to my very core today. (in a good way) He asked when I wanted to go get a Christmas tree! It is shocking because when I met him, he did not care about Christmas. He grew up in ridiculous poverty, so Christmases were rather bleak and sad, and then when he became an adult, his only role was to pay for his kids' presents. He had never received a Christmas present until he met me. Not from his parents or grandparents (who raised him). They just couldn't. Not from friends or even his wife. They were married 15 years and NO PRESENT!!! But now he has had 12 Christmases with me, and I will NOT stifle MY Christmas cheer for anyone or anything, and therefore I think I have finally rubbed off on him!!!! Yay! We always get a live tree so I told him I wanted to get one the week of thanksgiving so I can decorate it that night. It will be interesting to see Leos reaction to it......