Memorial Day 2009

Well, it is another memorial day. Another day of raking, removing, and adding new flowers to Bethanie's grave. You know allot of people think that when a person/child leaves this world, that the family no longer takes care of them. They could not be more wrong about that. I go every memorial, every birthday, and every anniversary to take care of Bethanie's grave. It is a big decision on the color to use this time and takes the whole family sitting down to make the final cut. We look for weeks to find just the right shade of pink. This year I think that we are going to use pastels. Peach, pink, yellow, green and blue will be the colors. Last year was bright colors and I want to get away from that and go more "girly" this year. Of course as always I will visit her little friend McKayla, who is buried behind her, and put something there. She is Melissa Ellis and David James little angel in heaven. She was the reason I put Bethanie over there, to be close to her, since they was the same age. So tomorrow I am off on a mission to find flowers (I am running late), to clean the grave and to sit and think about her. As I clean I love to look at her pink headstone and her little picture and think to myself, how much I miss her, and how happy she is right now. Well, I must run to bed. Please be saying a prayer for my uncle Gerald McGee, who was just diagnosed with prostate cancer.