August 2nd...

My Dearest Michael Happy Birthday!

Another year has passed my Dearest since you climbed the Stairway to Heaven.  Today is your Earthly Birthday and my thoughts are filled with memories of you.  I lit a candle this morning in memory of you and it shall burn until the Midnight Hour. 

So much has happened in this past year my Michael.  Continue your watch over our Grandson Josh while he is away in Iraq.  He has your warrior spirit and is following in your footsteps in the Military.  When he arrives home after his tour of duty in Iraq, he will have a couple of months if that to be with his wife Megan and our Great-Grandson Dakoda and then Josh will leave for Ranger training and another expected tour of duty with the Rangers in Iraq.  Watch over him my Dear One and keep him safe.

Our Granddaughter Christina's due date for our Great-Granddaughter is the first of November.  Whisper lullabies to our baby Great-Granddaughter and hold my hand when we hear the baby's first cry.

I miss you my Michael.  My life in Florida is a happy one.  I have adapted to living here and love the sweet moist humid weather that kisses my skin.  I hope to live out my days with our son Don and family here in Florida until the time arrives when you greet me at the top of the Stairway to Heaven.   Of course you have taught me that even the most well-made plans can change, and so I keep this in my mind as I write this.  I truly love the Florida climate and especially the warm winter here that is filled with sunshine and green foliage and beautiful blooming flowers.  I so wish you could have been here with me.  But it was not to be.

It is hard for me to go on without you Michael.  It is especially difficult to think of letting the walls down to another and loving them as I love you.  But then, you have taught me that Life has a way of teaching you the different loves that come about in one's life.  I never understood as a child how my mother could love my stepfather and marry him when she had loved my father.  I now know.  Just as my mother watched my father climb the Stairway, she in her youth reached out after a few years had passed by to love once again.  Perhaps I too shall love again.  It doesn't dim my love for you...it simply is another love to cherish in my life.  And so my Dear One...you are forever with me...in my heart...in my soul...in my memories. 

Whisper to the Angels there with you to watch over our family...Deb and Troy and little Jordan, Dan, Brenda and Parker.  Christina and Shawn and our Great-Granddaughter-to-be.  Josh, Megan and Dakoda,  Don, Lisa and Micah, Alec and Katie.  Our family continues to grow my Michael...watch over us from your Heavenly Home.

I kiss you lips my Dear One.  I treasure our love forever.

Until next year, may your Birthday be a beautiful one.

All my Love,

Your Sandra