mom is gone

kellyh33 said:

So sorry
I am so sorry for your loss. I completely understand your hurt and your feelings since we lost my Mom three weeks ago.
It will get easier as the time goes on.
Kelly

jbeans888 said:

My prayers are with you and
My prayers are with you and your family.

Cafewoman53 said:

So Sorry!
I am sorry for your great loss just take it one day at at a time and try to remember her when she wasn't sick. Take comfort that she is no longer sick and suffering.
Colleen

Anita1216 said:

It has been a really hard
It has been a really hard few days. We have everything in order for her final arrangements. Honestly? We knew it was bad, but we had not planned anything for her and so we have had to do this all on the fly. My siblings and I feel as though we are lost on a stormy sea, being tossed about. Her funeral has turned into this huge to do and we are overwhelmed and humbled by the outpouring of love and greif for our mom.

I just wanted to thank all of you again, you were all kind and so supportive. You made this tough time somehow easier to bear. I finished a letter to mom and i want to share it with you ladies (and gents). The font and script are being changed, its being displayed at her viewing/funeral service. I am also going to link to the funmeral home, her obituary is on top, Aleta Hooper. http://www.vermeulenfuneralhome.com/n/obituaries.htm

Mom-

I hope you know how much we loved you, will always love you. We watched you go and all of us felt the shift, our world tilted. Now we wonder how we are going to make it right again. Looking around me I see people going on with life, something we will have to do without you and I’m not sure any of us know how we will do that yet. How do we get through the coming months and years?

There were so many things mommy, because all of us thought there was still time. We wanted to tell you things, to ask you things. How will we ever have summer without you making potato salad? What about family potlucks without your noodles? I don’t know how to make butterscotch pie and you have gone away without telling me. We were supposed to make strawberry jam. I wanted to watch you make peas and taters, to see you in the kitchen doing all of those wonderful things that only seemed to know how to do.

Cancer is such a scary, awful disease and it wasn’t fair you had to fight again. We had to watch you bear up under the enormous strain. You were so brave, so stoic about it all. You took all of it in stride and you never really stopped having hope for your miracle.

We are so very proud of you and your life, your legacy really is the five of us and the amazing job you did raising us on your own. We want people to remember you for the wonderful woman you were. The way your smile lit up a room and how much people loved to be with you. When people talk about you it will be with love and laughter, because you knew how to turn a phrase and make even the mundane funny.

We are all going to be ok, so don’t worry about us to much. You did your job and it made us strong and resilient. We all know you would have chosen to stay and be with us for a while longer, but sometimes the plan gets changed.

Mom, thank you for being who you were, thank you for every moment you gave to the keeping and care of your 5 children. We are better people for that and you being here made the world a much better place to be.

With Love,

Lisa, Anita, Anna, Joe and Fred