Sometimes memories of you sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. August 9 was 5 years that I haven't heard your voice. There were months when I didn't think I would ever survive, recover the loss, and then slowly life moved on and I learned to live without you. Four years later the unthinkable happens... Kim is taken in an instant. It still doesn't seem real to me. I still think and talk about Kim as if she were here. Life has never been the same since for me, or Cody, or Al, or the family. Losing Kim has truly fractured the family. There was a comfort the last couple years, and I saw the transition, saw the baton was slowly passing from me and DD to Kim for family gatherings. She was keeping up with traditions and Kim, Cody and Al would be the next generation to care for us. That's gone. The only true blessing these past 14 months has been Jim. I found a true soulmate through the nighmare of it all, I can't explain it. He told me Kim would find comfort in knowing he's here now, and will take care of me. They saved the best for last Rocky. A true blessing sent to me I believe by God to help me through.
I also left Wauconda in 2014...seems like a life time ago, so much has happened. DD and I are under the same roof now, and I can see you spending lots of time here with both of us. Life is so unfair at times. I've learned its not about getting over loss, its about enduring it. I try to focus on my blessings and am grateful to God that I had you as long as I did.
I love you Rocky. I miss you terribly. I think about you almost every day.
Mom