Christmas 2021

Your family spent Christmas together in Arizona with your Dad & Rose. Baby Mark got new pajamas from us and I'm certain that you not being there was a glaring hole for everyone. No one talked about it...not to me anyway.

As for us, we celebrated quietly as usual here in our new home in Texas. And, like everyone in Arizona, you were missed like you are every day. I put up my village which was all I could really do this year. Your Aunt Mary made an ornament for the family as a keepsake last year with your picture. I didn't have a tree, but placed your ornament in the village next to the church. Next to the Holy Family...I asked them to pray for your soul and for our family.

I know that things were hard for you in the family. And, I'm so sorry that we were (are) a broken family. Crazy as I might sound, I hold hope for the family. I know you always did because we talked about it. We just started another year - - 2022. Never in my wildest imagining would I have thought you wouldn't be here. But you aren't.

The beauty of Christmas was special to me this year. It's always special, but even more so this year. God, almighty humbling himself to come to us as a baby? To a family. He could have come any way - - he's God. But he chose to come in a family. I'm glad you are my family. Even though you have passed from this life, you were chosen to be in this family and I was chosen to be your mother.

Holy Family, pray for us.