Missing my Mom

On Good Friday evening Graig and I got a call that no family wants to receive.  It was the hospital chaplin and she told us that my Mom had suffered a massive heart attack and had passed away earlier in the evening.  My Mom was shopping with her best friend when she suffered her heart attack.  She died instantly.  I am so thankful and grateful that she didn't suffer and that she was with her best friend when she died. 

I flew to Illinois on Sunday morning to be with my family and to make funeral arrangements for my Mom.  Graig was going to go with me to Illinois and Grandma Jan was going to stay home to watch Brock and Ava.  When we were about to board our flight we got a call from Grandma Jan.  She said that Graig's Dad had just suffered a heart attack and he was being taken by ambulance to the hospital.  Graig and I decided that he needed to go and be with his Dad.   Thankfully, Graig's Dad is going to make a full recovery.  He had two stints put in and he was released from the hospital on Tuesday afternoon. 


This week has been  the hardest week of my life.  I am so thankful for my sister Michelle and her husband Ryan and his family, and my Dad and his girlfriend Vicki and for all the rest  of my friends and family.  Everyone has been SO supportive and loving and I am grateful for all of the loving people that we have in our lives. 

 Here is a picture of my Mom's casket from the funeral.  I am thankful that she is buried next to her parents and her aunts, uncles and cousins. 

I am going to take things day by day. Some days are good and some days I just want to cry all day and remember my Mom. I am going to honor my Mom by being the best Mom that I can be to Brock and Ava.