It's been 8 Years....

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...since my dear mother passed on. Every year on this day, I still feel the same sadness I felt 8 years ago when I got that dreaded phone call that she had indeed left us. That would be a first...her leaving us and leaving us for good that is. My mother NEVER left us...not once in our lives. WE left her to live our lives but we always came back to her when life gets too much for us to handle...and she would always be there to get us through whatever it was.

I wasn't there physically when she left us but she wouldn't have had it any other way. She always tried to shield us from anything that could potentially hurt us...especially me. That's her way of protecting us.

So today, I am giving her the 'tribute' the best way I could possibly give her. Letting the world know that I had [have] a mother who will always be the greatest woman for me. I am slowly becoming "into her" and I wouldn't have it any other way. I miss you, Nay!

Here's her picture when she graduated in college. She was a Teacher. Now you know why I chose to be one myself.

This is where that picture of her and my father's are....pasted on my graduation picture. It's them that made me work as hard as I did to get where I wanted to in college...so this is where I want to keep them...close to my heart.

P.S. --- Forgive my hair..the birds were sleeping on the nest on my head when the picture was taken and I didn't want to bother them so I didn't 'disturb' my hair.