It's Christmas morning. This is the 8th one since you passed. Can hardly believe it's that long. Most days it still feels like yesterday.
Christmas isn't the same without you. I don't know anyone who loved Christmas as much as you did. You made Christ the centre and celebrated His birth and made sure we grew up knowing what Christmas really meant. You always made family a priority but even more so on Christmas day.
When things changed and we weren't always together on Christmas, you did everything you could to carry on traditions and made sure we were still able to celebrate together. I may not have understood or appreciated it as much as I should have then...but I sure do now.
Today we celebrate with Maren Kathryn, your granddaughter. She is a beautiful angel which is fitting because you loved angels. We will do all we can to raise her as you did us, knowing Christ and knowing the hope and joy found in loving Him and serving Him. We will also raise her knowing the great woman her grandma was and how much her grandma would have loved her.
As I look across at our tree, a real fir tree, atop the tree sits your lace angel. The same one that sat on your trees year after year. It will stay atop of ours as long as it stays together. Seeing it there just makes me miss you all the more.
Thank you for all of the traditions, the love, the hugs and the gifts. Nothing in this life can ever replace what we lost when you pasted away.
Love you mom!
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