Happy Birthday to one that has gone.

Tomorrow is going to be one of those days. The kind where you are happy in your life and yet, there is that small feeling of loss for what may have been. This rings true in a few ways in our lives over the past, and the hope for the future. Anniversaries, no matter what the purpose, are never all tea cakes and roses, but are necessary just the same. The birth of one, the death of another...no matter if it is person, friend, or family...never easy but often easier as the time passes. The future is ours, and this year we celebrated the 5th year anniversary of your death, the 37th anniversary of your birth. I, for on, am taking a new approach though. Celebrating this day with memories that make me smile, cupcakes that were your favorite, for all to partake! You would have liked that. Within the next year however, I am certain, we will celebrate many things and this alone is what makes these long days seem a bit shorter. Life is often complicated, and almost always difficult, but the small moments that we get to share with each other are what dealing with the rest is all about. Here is to a year of new love, new life and new dreams coming true. The past can stay where it belongs...in the past, in our memories, in our hearts, and the future is simply all ours. Happy Birthday Tina, my darling sister...31 when you left us, and 37 tomorrow in our hearts. You are still well loved and greatly missed. Until next time...