So sorry for your loss. We went to CHS together, shared lunch, laughs, and a few classes. I heard a song yesterday, Only Scars In Heaven (I believe is the title.).... isn't it great that Terri's health issues are gone! And she is talking with God and all your loved ones who've passed. May you find comfort in your memories.

I talked to mom on the phone and through video chat a lot. Three weeks ago today was a bit scary. She texted while we were driving across South Carolina that she was really sick and needed me to get Joel so she could go to the ER. At the time, I didn't know that it was because she had never figured out how to add numbers to her new phone and it seemed so weird that she texted me in order to get him, but I did and then waited anxiously all day to find out what had her feeling so sick she wanted to go to the ER. She called that evening after having been diagnosed with a kidney stone and sent home. She had spent all day at the hospital but was in a great mood. She was so full of hope for the future that even the day that she had hadn't dampened her enthusiasm. While we were packing up her things I read a couple of her journal entries (and heard her in my head telling me to stay out of her stuff the whole time). The thread that was true in those journal entries though was hope. She was so full of hope that no matter how bad things had been that they would be better in the future. It is something that I hope that I can hold on to for my own future.