Thank You
May 11th, 2008January 12, 1977 -
Erica - there are no words that can express the love I feel for you. How proud I was when you cut your first tooth and took your first steps. You are a beautiful baby and you are very alert and active - you make my days full. Years from now you’ll think all of the things you did were silly and your mom’s silly for being so sentimental. Only the birth of your baby will make you understand the way your mother feels now.
May 11, 2008 -
Mom - You were absolutely right. I had no idea how much you loved me until my own daughter was born. I gushed over her first tooth and her first steps and you weren’t there to see it. I wish you could see your granddaughter. She’s a little spitfire just like I was. She plays “stinky feet” and likes to pull up people’s shirts to find their belly buttons. I can imagine you watching her and telling me how I did the very same things when I was her age.
I miss you so much, mom. When the person who loves you most in the whole world is gone, there’s a void that can never be filled. I know that you’re with our Heavenly Father and have no earthly concerns, but I do hope you’re allowed to peek in on us every now and then. I hope you’re proud of the woman I became and the mother that I am. I hope you know that I think you were a wonderful mother and I always felt loved.
I will tell Maddie stories about you and show her your picture and your legacy will live on. You’ll never really be gone, mom. Not in my heart.
I love you as big as the sky the last number of times.
Erica

