This has been a difficult week. My brain hasn't seemed to function very well and to concentrate takes all of the energy I can muster. This afternoon a knock at our door at school and someone delivered a blue bag with a note from the North Pontotoc Elementary Staff. This is the Willow Tree votive candle holder they gave us. Inside the top of the piece it says "Keeping you close in our thoughts".
The little girl holding the seashell is perfect since Lynda was born in south Alabama and was often at the beaches in Pensacola, Destin and Ft. Walton Beach. She loved the water. I even filled up the flower pot of artificial mums with white white sand from Destin because she loved the sand so much. And yes, we always keep a big bag of Destin sand in our garage. LOL Actually we had brought it to make sand trays for our students to trace letters of the alphabet in.
Tomorrow marks the seventh week since we were told the prognosis and moved Lynda up to hospice. She passed away early the next day on a Saturday morning, This Saturday is her birthday. In seven more weeks she would have been 42.
Thank you North Pontotoc Elementary staff. You cannot know how much we appreciate the hugs, the comments about following Lynda's blog and just understanding that this is a road we have never traveled and appreciate the friendly faces along the way.
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