Mother's Day

This is the Mother's Day jewelry box and I love it.  Levi made the box and the bracelet and a lovely card that just added to the whole beauty. 

Mother's day continues to be a difficult day for me.  I am a little sorry about the coincidence that put Mother's Day as the last Sunday that I spent with Frankie and it certainly contained his last truly happy moment, when he laughed and loved and didn't think about pain.  The kids had bought disc shooters to give their mothers and the kids spent some time that day shooting each other and shooting us and shooting the nurses as they walked past the door.  The boys all laughed and laughed.  It didn't last long.  Frank didn't have the breath to laugh long and the pain was always there ready to jump him again.  But for a few minutes there, it was just three little boys happy and at peace, unaware that just around the corner their world and ours was going to change.

Ah sweetheart, you made me a mother by your birth, but you made me a different kind of mother with your death.  Both changed the very core of me.  Levi has made me a different mother too and he continues to change me every day.  I love you both so much and I am proud to be your mother.