Suggested Topic

Audra wrote: some days i have a hard enough time thinking of topics for my blog lol.

One fun thing might be to go back a year on your blog and write about what was going on a year ago compared to now?

Hmmm...not sure fun is the word for it but I took the challenge anyway. I know exactly where I was and what was going on exactly one year ago.

April 7th 2007 found us in the Seattle area celebrating my mom's last Easter. We drove up on Friday the 6th and spent the afternoon playing in the park with my brother and Cara and Saturday the 7th we spent the morning hours at the adult family home where my parents resides having Easter - including the egg hunt. I find it impossible to believe now that in one month and three days time my mother would pass from this earth. Here is link to the slideshow I created from that weekend. And here is the write up from it. Reading it again brought it all back...including the tears.

We, of course, knew she was dying. In fact we believed it would be sooner than that because the next weekend found the kids and I moving into an extended stay hotel to be near my family. We were there for five weeks in total while Dakota continued to work, attend classes and take finals during the week and commute the three hours to be with us on the weekends. My mom held on weeks longer than expected which was a mixed blessing on every possible level. But maybe that's a topic I can revisit at another time.

May 11th will be the one year anniversary of her death. It is also Mother's Day. Ironic, no?

So while it isn't exactly a pleasant fun-filled trip down memory lane it does seem right to have gone back and read about the visit and watch the slide show. I'm anxious about the one year anniversary - I don't know why. Maybe it was fate that Audra suggested what she did. Maybe strolling down memory lane of the next few weeks will help me get through it.