I have not written in a while and not because I don't have plenty on my mind. We have been through our first Christmas without my mother and celebrated what would have been her 61st birthday. I started a tradition by celebrating her birthday that I hope we keep up. We all had a nice dinner my daughter and I made cupcakes and I bought balloons to write messages on and we sent those up to Nana.
I can't say the new normal is easy its just day to day. We start new traditions, change old traditions and keep my mother alive through conversations about her daily. My son (16 months old) knows who Nana is by picture and kisses her. Every time we ask him where Nana is he looks for her picture with a huge grin on his face. Some day he will know how much she loved him.
