Our angels are waiting till our time comes.....

So yesterday was Bethanie's angel-versary. She has been gone 9 years....9 long years. Those 9 years seem like they were so long, but then everytime that I think about her, it seems like yesterday that I laid her down for a nap. You know everyone has told me that things happen for a reason, and I fully believe that. You see many years ago I went to school with a girl who came from such a big family. She kinda sorta dated (if that is what you call it, when your 11 or so), my little brother Jamie. I was never really nice to her, and never really spoke to her. I knew she was nice, but you know how teenagers are, everyone younger than them are children ha ha.

So for years there after, we graduated and our paths would cross on occasion in Walmart, and I worked with her dad at the hospital. Nothing more, nothing less. Then one tragic day my little brother comes home to tell me that her little brother had been killed in an accident. That is where our lives met so many years later. Being a mother who had lost a child, and she was a sister who had lost her dear little brother. My little brother means the world to me and I knew that I would be devastated if I lost him. So I went to her brothers site and I paid tribute to her angel, asking him to watch over my angel. At the beginning of this blog, I told you that things happen for a reason, well they do. I was contacted by her sister, and then her mother and then her, and we are such dear friends now. Things that I can't get through with loosing Bethanie, I can now, because of her and her family. Days like yesterday are easier to manage with her and her family. My own family forgot Bethanie's angel-versary yesterday, but I awoke to a gorgeous bouquet of flowers from her and her family. Just to let me know that they are thinking about me. So has I do every year I let them know that I am thinking about them today on their angel's birthday. To let them know that my family has grown and I am honored that God chose us to walk these paths together, even on days that I wish it was a path that I was not made to walk.

So THANK YOU Jenn, Thank you Brenda, Gary and Amy. You guys are my shoulders when I need to cry and I pray that I can always return the love to you guys that you have shown to me. So on this day I wish Kristofer a very happy birthday, Bethanie a very happy angel-versary and smile to know that I am no longer forced to go at this alone. I love you guys!!!