How many more days?

Less than a month
16 more days with students


Update

mom: The bad days are more than the good days, but she is still hanging in there.

April 13th I find out I have a nephew that is three months old. That same phone call from my mother, I find out he has died of crib death. I can't imagine going on about your day thinking all is well with your loved ones, only to return having your world turned upside down. I can somewhat related. The same thing happend when my step father passed away, but I will say that with kids it is different. There is the guilt issue. They are supposed to be cared for by you and I can imagine that is a tough one to get through. Not that it was anyone's fault. He was a beautiful healthy baby (named after my step father) from what I could see of the pictures of him anyway.

The funeral was tough. Not because this child died necessarily. I didn't know him. It was tough to see all of the relatives who have grown so distant. It was tough because the burial was right next to my step father's grave in which my mother's headstone also lies. Sobering. Years ago it seemed so far away that it was unimaginable to lose my mother. Now? not so much.