08 May 2007

A Year Passes... time moves on.

It is so hard to believe that Mom has been gone for just over a year now. So hard to believe. It feels like it's been just days and many, many years all at the same time.

I took the day off of work Friday, May 4th, the first anniversary of her death. My sister and I then took a road trip. It was a rainy and foggy day Friday, not much fun for driving really, but it didn't matter. Wendy and I were together and we took Mom with us.

Mom was not only with us in heart as she always is, her ashes were in the cremation jewelry that I got us both and we took the rest of mom's cremains with us on the trip. It was a blast. Mom is oddly quiet, she didn't ask to stop at any of the Casey's convenience stores we went by. Mom didn't even comment on how the view of her old home town looked and the cemetary where our family is buried.

Wendy and I went to put flowers and crosses on the graves of some relatives, a bit early for Memorial Day, but it was a day of rememberance. It was amazing, in a sad way, how in the old township cemetery where our Grandpa and many other relatives are buried that the keepers of it have stripped it of many of it's trees and a lot of the bushes and shrubs that were there for many years. It looked nearly naked!!!

I miss my mom still so very greatly. I know I will always miss her. God had gotten me through with great friends and "family" and with the hope of one day being with her again.

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Ich liebe dich, mutti!