Things I want to remember!

Forgive my sentimentality today. My emotions are still so raw, even after six years. Because I have a lot of words, but too much emotion to fully express how I feel today, I want to just share a few things I never want to forget about my mom.

Things I will never forget:

1. The way we could laugh for hours on end. By the time we stopped laughing, we had forgotten what we started laughing about to begin with.

2. The day I came home from school and flipped my mom off, thinking it was the coolest thing in the world. My mom didn't get mad, she just left my room quietly and never mentioned it to me again. I didn't get a lecture.

3. She flew by herself, despite her serious dislike for flying, to be with me when I had my first child! On her way home she got stuck in the Chicago airport because the weather had delayed the flight from Michigan.

4. We were a dynamic duo at Skipbo and Phase 10. We could cheat like no other but we didn't cheat to win. We found ourselves in fits of giggles when we cheated.

5. She always said she enjoyed hearing me practice both the piano and flute although I knew most of the time I sounded terrible.

6. She made the most of bad situations. I made my brother mad one day and he kicked a hole in the wall. She turned that hole into a bigger hole that eventually became a closet.

7. She always knew when I had a bad day.

8. She made the best cinnamon rolls and the best snickerdoodle cookies.

This list can go on and on, but I fear the length of this post if I do. It has been said that time will erase all pain, but I seem to feel it as acutely now as I did six years ago. There is a void, replete with questions that will not have answers until we are reunited someday. So I must continue to plod along, hoping that I don't defile her name. I must keep her memory alive and give my children the opportunity to know the woman who helped shape my life!

Just a few more!

I know some of these pictures are a few months old, but I had to share anyway. This is what happens when the pictures stay on the camera for months on end! But it has been so fun to go through the pictures. Enjoy.

Micah gets to wear Daddy's hat for a few moments.

 

Emma and Micah having fun together. Is it obvious to you who put that hat on Micah?

 

My two sweet boys! Timothy does have sweet, non mischievous moments!

 

Every time Timothy wears this suit he says, "I look like the Bishop!" I love this boy!

 

Random pictures, thoughts, etc.

We signed Amber up for Fall and Spring soccer. She's such a cute soccer girl! Her favorite part: the treats at halftime and at the end of the game. She does like to wear the uniform too.

 

 

 

I can't say I'm the best soccer mom though. I don't like sitting out at the field when it is cold and rainy. My dad thought he was done with kids sports when we all grew up, ha, little did he know his grandchildren would tell him about every game! Amber is very good at the pouty face that says, "I'll be so sad, disappointed, and scarred for life if you don't come to the game!"

Here's a picture of the kids in their Christmas outfits. Okay, so I bought the outfits at Christmastime, but didn't specifically buy them for Christmas. Make sense? Anyway, I searched high and low for an outfit that was reasonably priced for Micah. And then I talked to somebody at church about pink ties for the boys. My personal mission changed. I had to find a pink tie for Micah! John just rolled his eyes at me when I told him. He didn't think I would actually do it! Then I went shopping with Cori! She saw the outfit and it was the only one at that store in Micah's size with the pink tie! Wahoo, mission accomplished. He's so darn cute in the pink tie.

 

Okay, so Micah loves my phone. My screen has scratches, evidence of Micah's obsession with my phone. So we found him his own phone, one that looks suspiciously similar to mine!

 

Of course Amber has her princess crown on. She believes she is a princess and I will not change that for her. Despite any difficulty I may have with her, she will always be my princess.

 

Look at that face. He always looks mischievous. He always looks like he's planning his next move. And that smile, he knows what he's doing! He's so darn cute it is hard not to laugh and it is hard to get mad sometimes!

 

And then there's Emma. She hides from the camera it seems because I was hard pressed to find a picture of her. But when she allows the pictures, she is my little angel.