Memorial Day 2005

I think Greg did a great job presenting a memorial to Laurie today. I have to spend some time thinking about my mom, too, today. You see today my mom would have been 76 years old. She always used to tell us that everyone put the American flag out for her birthday...and for a long time I believed it. But even if that wasn't true, I wave a flag of thanks in her honor today. She loved each of us, cared for Dad (who I also need to salute today as a veteran), knitted a gillion scarves and afghans and baby blankets and just was a fun, sweet mom. Not perfect, who is? She was a great memory maker. Mom passed away so unexpectedly last July; I still have not let that really sink in yet.
What I do know, is that I did not comfort her enough when my sister Lin died. Now knowing the pain of losing a daughter and how incomprehensible it is, I mourn that piece of all this, too. The other thing, too, is I am thankful I did not have to tell Mom and Dad about Laurie taking her own life. How could I ever have done that????