I can't believe in a few short days it will be a year...a year since we lost you. It seems like it all just happened, then there are times that it seems forever since I saw you last. I didn't like this time last year Mom, we were preparing ourselves...preparing ourselves of losing you. I remember helping you take a bath at the hospital. I think it was at that moment that I realized how this sickness really snuck up on us. You were always so independent. YOU were the one to help me and this time...this ONE time you needed me to help you Mom. Do you remember when Shelley and I washed you hair? You were always so picky about your appearance and especially your hair, so we washed it for you and tried to pick it out...the best we could anyway. I also clipped your toenails for you. I remember you asking for that hotfudge sundae with no nuts and how I fed it to you....just a couple days before you passed away. That was the very last thing you ate. I was glad to get it for you and very honored to have been the one to feed it to you. I know how much you loved them Mom. I am missing you so much right now. It's really hard to even sit here and write to you. Shelley is coming down on Monday. I want to bring Taylor out to the cemetery too Mom, I know you'd want her to come too. She's doing good, I can't wait for her foot surgery to be done and over with. I am really nervous about all the after care she'll need and I hope she isn't in too much discomfort. I know in my heart though that she needs this surgery and if you were here you'd tell me, if my heart told me to do it...then to do it. You'd tell me that she's a tough little girl who's been thru much worse and that she'd be fine. I know you'll watch over her Mom, that is why you left us on her birthday...to remind us that you'd be her guardian Angel. I love you Mom and I miss you more than ever!!!! ******KISSES******* (((((((HUGS))))))))