WW: A Year Ago, May

Linking up with Mama Kat again this week for writers workshop. If you want to learn more about it, click the link at the bottom of this post.

The prompt I chose this week is: Throwback Thursday: Choose a photo from a previous May and write a blog post.

Here is my picture:

I really hesitated doing this, just because it's still so fresh.... but I feel like writing is my therapy.

This was taken my birthday weekend last year. I had zero idea that by my next birthday both my mom and my grandmother would be gone. It's hard to imagine my life without them, but I am slowly adjusting. I still pick up the phone to call mom sometimes. Or I will find a great deal on something at a sale and want to tell her about it. Right now, I am trying really hard to focus on the joy in this picture. Mom was so happy to have the girls and I there. I think grandma was too, though it is hard to know with her being like she was! It was a blessing beyond words to have this picture, four beautiful generations, something my girls and I can hold on to. So many people don't get to share their children with grandparents or even parents. I'm so grateful that I was able to do that.

This post inspired by:

1000 Gifts: A gift worn, white, whispered

• It is a gift to have some of my mom's shirts. Right now my sister has them, holding them safely until we can create a quilt with them. 
• It is a gift to have the white sand in our family unity jar. A color that stands for God. It's at both the base and the top of the family's colors and has started moving to the center. A reminder always that God is the foundation of our family and we are only complete with him. 
• It is a gift to have little girls whispering their secrets in my ears. I know they won't always share them, but I'm so glad they do!