Filling in the "gaps"

Ok, so the gaps left by the last "state of the world" post...

This is a tough emotional season...

Mom turned 75 on April 11. Her first without Dad since she was 17.

We said goodbye to dad on April 19th last year.

Tomorrow is Mother's Day and for all intensive purposes, the first without dad. She was in such grief last year I don't think it really registered.

May 18 is his birthday.

June is Father's Day.

July 10 is their wedding anniversary.

Then, an emotional break until Halloween. They love that holiday. They used to make a mini haunted house and dad would be the grim reaper or some other ghoulish thing and they would decorate the house and yard and just have a ball.

But, all things considered, Mom is doing good. Some of us kids have been able to be really extra supportive of her and some others seem to have checked out.

Mom started going to church and even went to lunch with one of her neighbors. She was all bubbly and just talked to no end about her day. It was beautiful.

I am getting along ok. I still have those days, and always will, where I just melt down at the realization that I will never look in his eyes again. Never see that sheepish grin when he was being a brat, never see his hurt over something somebody carelessly said, never see the amazing wealth of undying love he felt for mom. Never spend hours looking for his misplaced hearing aid, battery or fishing lure.

But I have those memories, his ridiculously short arms, short temper and his sense of preparedness. Thanks for that dad!

Ok, so that is the scoop.

Yard care updates coming. I might even manage a photo or two.