In Loving Memory

This is the last picture we have of you taken four days before our accident. If you’d be here, if life would have gone according to my plans, you would be finishing high school and we’d be planning a graduation. And you probably would have become an amazing cook. You might even be planning to go to a culinary school. But instead we’re aching with longing to see you and your lovely smile, to hear your giggle, to talk with you, to just be with you. I cry thinking of all that could/should have been but isn’t. And honestly there’s a twinge of anger about how unfair life feels, but when I think of where you are and Who you’re with I am comforted, I have peace. I know one day we will be together again enjoying the delights of heaven. And until then I have Papa God to carry me, to dance with me in the never ending grief journey that comes along with burying my child. I loved you the moment I knew you were a little life growing inside me and I love you still so I grieve.

Your presence we miss, Your memory we treasure,
Loving you always, Forgetting you never,

Mom and Dad, JoAnn, Justin & Stephanie, Jana, Jodi & Janessa