The past few weeks have been difficult. As we enter into the holiday season I’m pretty sure it won’t be getting any easier. Today, my first birthday in 8 years without my daughter is rough. I am missing my little girl today terribly. All the ways she made us feel so special, especially on our birthdays. What a wonderful child she was. I can’t believe it has been nine months today that I watched and held her while she took her last breath on earth. The image is implanted in my head forever, not something I wish to see over and over again. Unfortunately it happens all to often. The nightmare you never wake up from is the only way I can describe it. You are deeply missed Samantha.
On the brighter side of things, we have been keeping very busy doing things with friends and Christopher’s events. This helps tremendously. Jason being 14 months old certainly keeps us going too! We have plans for Thanksgiving to go to friends of ours here in Vero. I think being home doing the “normal Thanksgiving” would have been very hard on all of us. We are very fortunate to have such a great family and so many wonderful people in our lives. Of course it will be hard but we will try to keep the focus on all we do have to be thankful for.
Thank you for checking in on us and continuing to be by our side through the difficult times we face. We wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.
With Love,
Audra, Kurt, Christopher, & Jason