Good Gravy

Dang I have been gone from this for a while now. I have a good excuse though. I have been gone from home for a while now! I and my family traveled from Missouri to Wisconsin, flew to Idaho via Phoenix, then drove to Southern Oregon, and then reversed the trip...while visiting people the whole way!
It has been a good month, but a super long one! This is the first time that we have seen all our family and friends since the death of our daughter 5 months ago, so with every person we visited, we re-lived our experience to some extent while showing pictures and sharing our story. We had two different memorial services for Anarazell in different states, so we now need to take a vacation in order to relax from our "vacation"!!
Our family is slowly healing. I was watching my wife share with her siblings, parents, and grand-parents. I could see in her face the joy and love that she was feeling for our daughter as she was showing them all the pictures, clothes and other treasures that she has of Anarazell, and it broke my heart.
She wants to be showing off her baby, not little plaster "molds" of her hands and feet. She wants to let them meet her baby, not try to describe to them through pictures how perfect she was.
It was hard to watch her, and at the same time I was so immensely proud of her.
Well, I am back, and I have plenty of things to rant...I mean talk about! Stay tuned!