So many people came - some who met you, and some who never did - to help us remember you and say goodbye.
It was a beautiful, sun filled day; and the backyard was full of happy kids tearing about while we caught up with people we haven't seen all this long and harrowing year.
I hope that our family can find more balance now and make more time to catch up with friends; particularly those with playmates for Elsie.
Over this past month since you left us I haven't stopped thinking about you, Poppy.
Every place I go I've thought about the last time I took you there. Completely mundane places like the supermarket and the gym have become makeshift shrines to the life I had before I lost you.
I miss you so much, my little Popsicle. My little Pop-n-fresh. My little Poppy noodle.
I miss the you from before the Rett syndrome snuck up on us and stole you away.
I will never not wonder, each and every day, what that day would have been like with you by my side.
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| Poppy's bath time, 10 June 2017 |
