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KathleenK  

14 days
My body began telling me you were with me

120 days
My body told everyone whose eyes fell upon us you were with me

5 months
My first pictures of you, via ultrasound

9 months
You joined us all on the outside

30 days
You were sleeping through the night

120 days
Teething began

6 months
Crawling began

9 and 1/2 months
The pride shown on your face, pulling yourself up to a standing position

10 months
The walking has started
The words began too

5 years 3 months
Kindergarten

5 years 8 months
Your first crush -- Sarah

10 years 4 months
You stood up for momma and your sisters

12 years 9 months
We welcomed someone new into our lives

16 years
Your first broken heart

18 year
Struggling for your independence

18 years 10 months
You asked permission to bring her home

19 years, to the date
You graduated from high school

19 years 10 days
You brought your girl home to meet us

19 years 110 days
Someone took you from us, from me

60 days
It is still so difficult, I am numb

I hate my new reality

5 months
Another postponed preliminary hearing, this time it was Mother Nature

7 months 14 days
I pray the preliminary hearing comes to pass this time
I miss you with every fiber of my being, Lovie

1 year 4 days
Trial is scheduled to proceed

11 months 15 days
Defense is not ready to go to work, postponed, again, another six month wait

364 days
I don't know how to make it through tomorrow. Your sister is already stressing so much.

God grant me the strength I need for this.

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Wow
rickya
This is intense, and wonderfully done. I read it through several times, and each time felt the weight of your steps as you go forward. Wonderful work. Carry on.
rickya , September 08, 2011
Thanks
KathleenK
Glad it moved you, Rickya. Thanks for taking the time to read... and Comment.
KathleenL , September 08, 2011
Moving
Lostchild61
Very heart felt and so "motherly" for lack of a better word. The counting struck me, we do that don't we? Counting the days and years. Made my heart ache for you and others I've known. Take care.
Lostchild61 , September 13, 2011
Yes, Yes we do
KathleenK
Lostchild -- "motherly" is a fine and wonderful word to use to describe this... because, as it seems to have come across.... that is exactly where this was written from. And Yah... we really do count the days, the weeks, the months, the years. I know that I wrote this for my son, Ethan Kline Walton, and for me I guess.... As you can see I celebrate being Ethan's mom. But on the other hand if it makes one mom or dad think about the milestones in their kids' and their life... even better. Sometimes I am sorry to cause a reader to feel the heart ache that I put on the "page", but then I remember that that is effecitive communiction and I am not the only one who has had a son, or a family member taken away like that. What those voices don't know, is they give me the strength. So, I am semi-glad that this makes more than just me look at the pics of family members and smile at a memory of them.
KathleenL , September 13, 2011

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