the day my world changed...

I am going to keep this post short. I wasn’t sure if I would even post today. I had a long post written out, but I’ve decided to keep it short and simple. Today is the-one year anniversary of Katie’s passing. The day my world, and who I was, changed forever. I feel like that is a very selfish thing to say, when I am still here, and she is not. It doesn’t matter what I’ve gone thru. She had it worse.

I’ll be haunted by this day forever. I remember so much of it, and yet it seems like a blur. I won’t go into detail today, maybe on another post. But just know I was with her until the end. She was never alone. I held her until her very last breath. And then some.

As I think back over this past year, I am so grateful… grateful beyond words, that I was able to hold her and talk to her as she passed. So grateful that she wasn’t alone, and that she could feel me, and hear me, as she made her journey.

So as I look back on this day, May the 6^th, I think back to that moment, when my life changed, but I try to focus on the blessings of that day, and how in the end, all that mattered was that the two of us were together. That was what mattered the most to us, being together, ‘til death do us part.

I’ve included a picture of her, taken at one of our closest friend’s home in Texas. This is how I choose to remember her. Happy, smiling, sipping her coffee, and holding her phone. This was how she would start every day. I took this picture because I felt it captured her true self, in her most authentic way. This is who I remember… always and forever.