So the question remains... what do we do on your birthday? We celebrate is what we do. On your actual birthday, January 14 - we got together with your family for dinner and sang happy birthday with an ice cream cake you would have loved. The kids blew out the candles for you. I took photos of it. I wanted to remember this one. And two of the photos had something very weird happen in them.
Megan was taking photos at the same time so I thought maybe the flash from her camera did something. But these are very clear distinct lines in the photos.

The weekend after we all celebrated at the East Side German Restaurant which is where I planned on taking you for your birthday this year (at least I remember what I PLANNED for your next birthday right?!?). It was bittersweet. And I won $5 on a scratch ticket - on the number 17 no less. 17 was your hockey number. And it was the 17th of January I won it. So many coincidences.... it's hard to ignore them.
Look at those two faces. They miss you, Mike. Their lives have been completely and totally devastated with your loss. And I can't fix it or make it better. This is the life they now have. And as a parent I want to be able to change it for them. But I cannot. They talk about you, they ask for you, they want to remember you. And most of all they want you back. We all just want you back.
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