Mom & Dad's Anniversary

Today's April 18th...it would have been Mom & Dad's 44th wedding anniversary.

I thought I was going to be doing okay...but I'm feeling pretty blue. We just finished a pretty fun Werewolf game over at TCF...that kinda perked my spirits for a little. But I didn't sleep well, woke up at 2:30am...and stayed up until I went into work at 6am.

Had the ipod on instead of Talk Radio...seemed like all the sad songs came on.

My family never really celebrated anniversaries very much...we'd try to be good...but that was about it.

We really celebrate birthdays, though. We're not a large family...Mom, Dad, four kids, three in-laws, and four grandkids. But we get together as a family for each person's birthday. We do dinner, cake, and gifts. Until last year, we pretty much would do "cake & ice cream" for everyone's birthday.

I think it was mostly because we could count on that time to get together. We all live within 45 miles or so of one another...but just don't get together much.

So that always makes birthdays special. Mom always liked it because she got cake.

Amy's birthday is in a few weeks, then Mom's is in May. I think these next two birthdays are going to be hard.

I miss my mom.