We Miss You.

It was the first time your best friend didn't get a hilarious sassy birthday card from you.  It was the Anthropology sale, where you find all those great deals.  The sale has passed and your friends are missing stories of your great finds.  Seeing you with your camera at the soccer games.  And just being at home preparing snacks for your kids and greeting them when they come home from school.  Open houses have passed.  Your eldest has brought home her first wood working project and wants to redecorate her room (again).  They are building a Hobby Lobby near my house and you would have been so excited.  Reaching out to hold mom's hand.  And giving dad a hug.  Sabrina wanting your warm lap and scratch behind her ear.  Meals are from Costco and cookies are store bought.  You would roll your eyes.  Huffles is still angry at the world and your oldest keeps love him like no other.  Faithfully, trying to break down the hard exterior.  I can't imagine as the years roll by that it gets easier.  It seems to me that it's getting harder.