What a World!

Dear Brian,

Today, I scheduled to have a new AC unit put on the roof next week.  And I realized it will be on your birthday.  Another "first" without you.  And it hurts.

I've been following the "12 Weeks of Peace" program put out by NationalCremation.com.  It's been an awesome resource, but the final word on it all: 

• "This is the end of our journey (84 days), but it is not the end of yours. You will grieve, heal, mourn, cry, and recover over and over again for the rest of your life. We spoke earlier about saying goodbye to a loved one in the sense of accepting their death, but you will never say goodbye to them from your life."

I've learned that you will be in my heart forever, and no one can take that away from me.  I also feel it's my job to keep you remembered, by writing to you, about you, and posting on your FB page. 

But all that aside, you're missing a quite intensely scary world right now.  We're on curfews and are supposed to stay home to keep COVID-19 from spreading from person to person.  Businesses are shut down, anything deemed "non-essential" ... I wonder if it's lucky that I'm considered essential? ha!  Maybe more like sacrificial is the correct term?  (lol)  Poor Grandma is stuck home alone because her age makes her that much more vulnerable to the virus ... although all things considered, my own age puts me in that same category! Yikes!

I've been having to make and bring my own lunch to work; I eat at my desk to avoid people in the break room.  Management takes our temp before we start our shift to be certain we're not running a fever.  I also take my own temp at bedtime each night, just as a double check.  After work, I come home and go straight to the garage where I strip off my work clothes and shoes, then take my shower.   I have never lived through anything like this!

But even with all of this going on, you're still in my thoughts a hundred times a day.  Something funny will happen and my first thought is sharing it with you, just like always. 

You're always there with me in my heart,
and in spirit.
Love you always,
Mom

First Day of School

First Day of School - Bree, August 1, 2013

Education is what remains after one has forgotten 
what one has learned in school.  ~Albert Einstein
 

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree 
and then spend six months as a bartender 
and six months as a cabdriver.  Then they would 
really be educated.  ~Al McGuire





Learning is a treasure that will 
follow its owner everywhere.  
~Chinese Proverb

Don't you love New York in the fall? 

It makes me want to buy school supplies. 

I would send you a bouquet of 

 newly-sharpened pencils

if I knew your name and address.

-From the movie "You've Got Mail"

The first day of school, every year, was pretty awesome for me.  Even though I had perpetual butterflies that started the night before the first day, it was a time to renew old friendships, make new friends, have a new teacher, and be learning new things.  It was always a time that held great promise, you just knew that this year would be better than the last!  Hopefully, this brings back your own memories of those long ago first days of school -- with or without the butterflies!