On This Mother's Day...

I can't help but think of the Mother's Day in 2008 that Jim and I spent together. Maybe it's the fact that I went to Yellowstone Bear World with my own mother this year. Even though we'd been just two weeks before. I have always enjoyed going there. But now it holds a special place in my heart. I always feel closer to Jim when I'm there. Silly. Maybe. Maybe not. There's something about petting the same animals he touched, standing where he stood, and feeling his presence that is comforting.

The deer he quickly became good buddies with. He's one of the few people I've watched actually get to pet one of the deers in the petting zoo.

We had an amazing weekend. Together. From the minute he got off the flight on Friday night until he flew back out on Monday morning.

Three years later I still wake up some mornings and wonder how he ever found his way to this tree.  How our world fell apart so quickly. How it came to be that he no longer wakes up laying next to me.

Waddles, I miss you and I love you. Not a day goes by that I don't think of you and wish there was more I could've done. If there's a reason and a purpose for everything I've only figured out one half of it and it's not the half related only to you. Hold the poppy a little longer today. And on this Mother's Day I thank him for being in the places I couldn't be. Love always and forever, Me