(((((((Mom)))))) Dang do I miss you, I smiled though....I got thru today with plenty of happy thoughts, a birthday girl and I smiled Mom, because I KNOW you are up there smiling down on us ;) I was remembering, back when I was a senior in HS and I skipped school to go to Mc Donalds with friends. Hahahaha, I forged your siggy and wellllll, BIG mistake. It got me to Mc Donalds, but the big meanie of a secretary called you. I remember picking you up from work and you askimg me 'how was your day'. I went with it and said 'good and yours'? You ever so casually glanced over at the mileage and said 'wow, a few extra miles on the car today', lol. YUP, I was busted. Never got into much trouble over it with you...well kinda sorta, the school however, landed me 2 Saturdays in Saturday school....YIKES. I don't know why that thought crossed my mind today....it just did. I miss you Mom, I mean I REALLY miss you!! I miss the easy way we talked, how I could tell you anything and everyhing. No matter what it was somehow it get fixed...you could always make every little thing all better. Life was so convenient with you around. You were like perfection! The Good Lord will get us thru or things happen for a reason....you lived by those words! I remember the last word(s) you said to me. It was 2:30AM on 8/18/2007 I was sleeping in the recliner in your hospital room and I dozed off. I woke up and you were starring at me so I wondered over. I asked you if you were ok and you shook your head yes. I swabbed your mouth to moisten it. You took my hand and with every ounce of energy you could muster up you said "LOVE" I knew what you were trying so hard to say so I said "oh Mom, it's ok, you don't have to say it, I know you love me". You went to sleep after that and never woke up. Slipped away in a deep sleep, ready to leave us. The next morning I knew what had to be done. We had to tell you 'goodbye'...one by one. I went first...told you what an AMAZING Mother you are and if I could be 1/2 the Mom to my kids as you are to yours...well, I'd be happy with that. Then I told you that it was ok to go....to leave us on Tay's birthday,that this would be our sign that you'd always be looking over her. At the end of the day....11:58 PM you took your last breath and with you a part of me and today, 3 years later, i miss you as much as I did then! I LOVE YOU MOM!! ((((((((HUGS)))))))) ********KISSES**********