May….our month

Each month I update the calendar that had been Mom Graybill’s.  

In July 2011, just a few weeks before we were married, we bought an old F250 truck with a vintage 1970 Chinook Camper in the truck bed.  

We spent all summer and fall fixing up the camper.  It was wonderfully fun!

We were planning on going on a roadtrip….whatever that was, we didn’t know for sure.

Early in the new year we piled our truck and camper with everything we thought we would need for three months, and headed south from rainy Whidbey Island to find the sun.  This was the start of our first roadtrip—January of 2012.  Little did we know that we would love road-tripping so much that we would head south every winter for the next eight years….until we bought Nuestra Casa, our home in Leisure World, Arizona.

One of our first stops on our first roadtrip was to see Mom and Dad at their assisted living home in Mesa.  As we were sitting and talking, I realized that Mom had a calendar on the wall for the previous month. When I mentioned this, Mom, who had serious arthritis in her hands, asked me if I would help her update her calendar.

Every time we visited after this, I would help Mom update her calendar.  This was something I would look forward to….it was very special to work on the calendar with Mom.

After Mom died, I asked if I could have her calendar.  It reminded me of the times Mom and I spent together, like girls, talking and laughing.

As I updated Mom’s calendar a few days before the first of May, I once again thought of those happy days with Mom.  She is my Danny’s mother, but she will always be my very special Mom too.  She knew who I was in my heart, and she loved me, as I love her.

So, Mom, who is in heaven, we are thinking of you.  This is our most special month….the month that my (and your) Danny became an us.