Letter to Jenny

What a truly beautiful thing to do, to write a letter to Jenny. I wrote many to our Laurie, but always in my heart. I never thought to put them on paper.
Laurie has a corner of our dining room that is hers. The beautiful picture taken of her a year or so before she died sits on a table surrounded by my angel collection. There is always a small light on as Laurie never liked the dark and always had a small light on in her room. We use to tease her, that should she marry one day, her future husband would have to get use to a light always on. Regretfully that will never happen. Since she was a teacher of the really young, for 11 years we knew she would make a great mom again, not to be

Even the picture that we have of her has a life of it's own. It was taken actually a year or more before she died as a gift for us. There were several poses done, but the most beautiful one, was of just her face and a halo surrounds her. We never knew the effect that picture would have later. We believe that she is an angel and many a night I have spent talking to that picture and telling her of our love for her, how much we miss her, that we need her help, and that I still don't,want to believe that she is gone. This after 4 + years

Life goes on, never the same as before, but eventually forward. The love that we shared will never die..I have repeated "One day at a time" so many days and nights-yet many times a minute was all I could manage.

My thoughts and prayers are with you all. Each night, as I go home to my Ashland house the back way for me, I check to see if the tree house is still lite up and think of Jenny once more.