Celebrating My Mom

Today would have been her 69th birthday had she lived to see it.  Can't believe she's been gone 13 years.

This picture was taken during her short remission in 1997.  I thought she looked so cute with her short, post-chemo hairdo.
That dark girl sitting next to her had just come home from a Mexico
vacation -- not her usual color by any means.

Does a daughter ever get over missing her mom? 

I wish I could lean on her. 

Every day.