Love you, Mom!
I've been debating about posting this for a while. It's meaningful to me. It's sentimental. It's very special. This is the speech I gave at Momma's memorial. Well, most of it anyway...I've left off a few parts. But recently I've been pretty emotional about Mom -- just missing her, needing her, wishing she was around. Maybe posting these words is a way for me to love on her from afar. Yes. That is what I want this to be. Love you, Mom! It's been a very long 23-month journey for our family. And at the same time, 23 months flew by and it just wasn't long enough...I'm not sure that anyone can be fully prepared for losing someone so close to them. I know there's not enough mental preparation I could have done in any amount of time to get ready to lose my mom and best friend. But. There has been such purpose in these past two years. These years were nothing we expected, nothing we would have asked for, noth...