Merry Christmas 2013

Dear Landry


Another Christmas is here!  It's hard to believe that this is your fourth Christmas in Heaven, although you never spent a Christmas on earth, it's still hard to believe.


I have felt you near a lot lately and I want to thank you for helping me along.  This time of year can be a struggle, even though it is my favorite time of year.  I always worry!!


This Christmas season has been a nice one, we didn't do any one thing in honor of your name but we did a few different anonymous things, (you know what they are).


This year we also added some new decorations to have reminders of you.  Dad bought a really cool angel solar light.  I have never seen anything like it!  I can't wait to put it out, but I think we will wait for some better weather.  I got some angel ornaments, that are pretty cool and a little angel statue that isn't all girly like most angel things.  Grandma got Bentley and Abby each a dragonfly ornament that is pretty cool too.  We also got you some beautiful white flowers for your garden marker outside.  I was hoping they would freeze quickly and stay for awhile but our weather warmed up just enough to ruin that plan.  We enjoyed the sunshine though.


We will always love and miss you!  Thank you for continuing to send us beautiful sunsets to enjoy every night.  Thank you for cheering us on during those down times and hard days.  Please continue to be with us and help us through this journey we call life.


We love you little man and hope your Christmas in heaven is wonderful!


Love you always and forever
Mom

Where is Heaven, Is it very far?

I was raised to know that heaven is never far away.  I believed it while I was growing up and still do to this day...maybe a little more now than before.

Both of my parents are in heaven and an incredible aunt and uncle took me and my two sisters in and called us their own, making one family out of two.  They became our mom and dad too.

My mom taught us that our parents and heaven were always near and I know that to be true.  When Landry passed away, there was some peace knowing that his death was not the end, because of my knowledge from my upbringing.  I know that he too, will always be close because heaven is as near as you let it be.

After Landry passed away, Lenn and I became obsessed with sunsets!  I cannot remember the one time that it really came to me but I remember thinking 'I bet the little angels in heaven are in charge of the sunsets each night to help was remember them'.  After that I have watched for the perfect timing of sunsets.  I don't catch each one but I try.  They bring me such peace and an excuse to sit and think of my little Landry.

Since sunsets bring me such peace I love to pass that one to others who have lost a loved one.  I had the idea of putting Landry in a sunset and I loved it.  It put two loves together!  I have done a few for others and I hope they find the same peace that I do when I see sunsets knowing that Landry will always be close and there to help us along this journey we call life.