Well, this year I just stayed at home. Didn't go to the annual Thanksgiving get together...I just couldn't. Anyway, I cooked...yea, I actually cooked...ha ha Me, Kevn and the kids ate our Thanksgiving here at our house. It was nice, but all day you were on my mind. It has been alot of Thanksgivings since I spent it with you but for some reason all I can remember are our Thanksgivings when we were younger. I remember you and your bug box that you drove me crazy about finding bugs to put in it...ha You always had the neatest things to do on boring days...LOL But you always had a way with me and I would eventually go outside and find some bugs with you. It is amazing now how little things...alot of things....remind me of you from bugs, fishing, snakes, anything outdoors. I miss you so much. I would search for bugs all day everyday if you were here with me now....I love you so much Justin....
Love,
Jen Jen
Well Justin it is Thanksgiving Day I am here at Flora this year thinking of some of the past Thanksgiving you and I spent together,2007 on the hill deep frying a turkey,2006 Venice grilled Rib-Eyes and fresh shrimp fried and boiled that was a little different meal for Thanksgiving,2005 I was in Florida but remember talking with you that day as we did almost every day,2004 it seems like we were just rideing the roads looking for deer and stoped at a place on 55 and picked up some corn dogs and chips. Well can't remember back any more years,but those four will do me. When I buy corn dogs now I always ask how long they have been cooked remember you telling me they need to be at least six hours old to be really good,but six hours under a heat lamp does wonders for a corn dog,wish we could have had a couple of corn dogs (six hours old) today,that would have been a great Thanksgiving for me.
CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN
I still hear the songs
I still see the lights
I still feel your love
On cold wintery nights
I still share your hopes
And all of your cares
I’ll even remind you
To please say your prayers
I just want to tell you
You still make me proud
You stand head and shoulders
Above all the crowd
Keep trying each moment
To stay in His grace
I came here before you
To help set your place
You don’t have to be
Perfect all of the time
He forgives you the slip
If you continue the climb
To my family and friends
Please be thankful today
I’m still close beside you
In a new special way
I love you all dearly
Now don’t shed a tear
Cause I’m spending my
Christmas with Jesus this year
Just want you to know how much you are missed. The Holidays are approaching and all we can think about is how to make it through with that void in our
lives. Instead we need to realize you are going to have the most wonderful Christmas of all. Christmas with Jesus!! I can Only Imagine!! Yes that song brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. It makes me think how lucky you are but saddens me to realize you are no longer in our presence. Like Aunt Jeanie said we have been blessed with so many precious memories. Those memories are what we have to hold on to and help us through.
Love and miss yu so much!! Aunt ShaSha
November 2008
Thank you for all the memories Justin, from the excited little boy running to meet me to the thughtful, proud young man you became. ( Still coming to meet me.) You always brought joy when you were present, smiling and joking. " The Person Makes The Place". Yu've been the child I never had---so through the years ----we've laughed together and cried together. God has blessed us with such beautiful memories.
I now look back and think of our last conversation, a couple of weeks prior, and what all we talked about. God spoke,---and I had the chance to let you know how much I love you.That phone call was no mistake, as I told you, it was all part of the overall picture.(just like these last years of vacation and Christmas.) We were making memories with those we love. As humans we only see parts of things, but God sees the whole picture. Proverbs 16:9.
Now we talk to you but through the Lord. You are happy and at peace beyond our understanding. What more can we ask for.
He willl take me to be with him in His Happy Home above,
When no sin or pain can enter,
And All is Joy and Love. Amen---Aunt Jeanie
