The Family

“The family. We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.”
― Erma Bombeck

Friday, March 2, 2012

Gail - Treasured Daughter, Sister, Aunt

Wow - has it really been a year since my last post?! It has been quite a year. My older sister Gail moved in with us shortly after her diagnosis of pancreatic cancer just after Christmas 2010. Of course, the girls were ecstatic to have Aunt Gail living with them! But it was a long, crazy, tiring, heartbreaking and heartwarming year. Gail finally came home to my house under Hospice care (Thank God above for Hospice!!) January 19 and she died 9 days later. The first few days were pretty good - here is Addison napping with Aunt Gail (that's a bear tattoo on Addie's face - spirit week at school lol!). I am so thankful that my children are not afraid of death or of people who are dying. This is definitely because of our faith in God, that we have a heavenly home waiting for us and we will be reunited with our loved ones.
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  1. Have Myelin?March 3, 2012 at 11:54 AM

    What a beautiful, beautiful picture.

    Nothing to be afraid of, nothing. I truly believe that we will be reunited. I do.

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