Huge shout out to Jen!!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Jen took pity on an old lady who couldn't get her before/during pics up to size and redesigned my whole Blog for me! You are the best Jen, you know how special that pic is of my Dad and I and I will always remember you for doing this!

I am back "home" again with my family on Long Island and I really don't realize how much I miss it here until I come back. It is so great being here and being able to spend time with my mom, girls, sis, niece and nephew. Life goes on and they are all really living proof of this. I am very sheltered in FL in that I can go about my day and yes, at least once or 100 x a day "it" hits me and I remember May 11th. The big difference is that I didn't see my brother-in-law or father every day. My sister and her children live it 24/7, their husband and dad who used to be here is never coming home again.

I cannot walk into their yard and not see my BIL everywhere, he put in a built-in pool a few years ago and meticulously made a stone retaining wall, stone by stone, that surrounds the pool and landscaped the whole thing. This was the year that they were going to finish it with the pavers around the pool and continuing on the patio. My sister continued this job only she had a Mickey head integrated into the pavers as a memorial to her husband who was a Mickey fan to the end. The day he died, he had an appointment to have a Mickey that matched the Mickey on his tattoo, painted on his Harley! I know Jimmy is looking down from Heaven and smiling. People really do live on in our hearts, no one can tell me different!



We have a couple of really busy days ahead of us so I will apologize now if I don't get on here much! I just could not have gone a minute longer without thanking Jen, the Blog-Designer Extraordinaire!