The Wheeler Family

It feels like if I post, then my post on Kylie will move down and it will be like I am forgetting her. I know it is a ridiculous statement, but given how mad I was at Chris for posting about some dumb microsoft updates while I was still mourning my loss, I guess for me it makes sense. However, Kylie would be so upset with me if I focused solely on the passing of her. So, here I am, Monday morning… life does go on and it is going to go on without me if I don’t get on the ball.

I spent the weekend with the Thraps (along with my family). It was a nice retreat, Becca and I scrapped just enough that I got my fix, but not so much that I didn’t get any sleep . The kids had lots of fun swimming and running around outside. Becca and I also will get wife of the year awards for accompanying our husbands and children to the BBQlossal festival. Every year the men beg us to go because it is SO fun and every year we are like… nah! But this year, I consented, and Becca being the wonderful friend that she is agreed to go with me. Sadly, this year they decided to make the BBQlossal a veritable suck-fest of non-fun, to which our husband’s kept exclaiming,”Every OTHER year it has been AWESOME!” I feel bad, and I do believe that it was probably more fun in other years. We even managed to get in some Canasta, Becca and I are still on a massive losing streak, though late Saturday night we put on our low cut shirts and fancy underpinnings thinking we could maybe throw the guys off with our feminine wiles, and it seemed to work… except I don’t think it was our wiles that won it for us, rather a Josh that was falling asleep. Oh well, WE WON! Sunday afternoon we played and they came back and took the championship from us again. Ugh. So, now I have class this week, a fun week full of excursions to West Liberty to asses their end-of-life services for my class and papers for my Sexuality class. Then Friday (or sooner if Becca decides to grace us with her presence), the Thraps will be on this side of the state for the Mt. Pleasant BBQ contest. Saturday is my Grandpa’s birthday party too, so there is a lot going on.

Life really does move on, and sadly, while Kylie can’t be here to share it with me, she will be here in spirit. I am sure in time, posting will not seem so difficult and feel like I am taking something away from her… but if she were here she would call me a “Dag” (it’s Australian for something you don’t want to know lol) and make me laugh. Thank you all so much for your love and support in Kylie’s passing, it meant so much to me… now we pick up our hearts and keep moving forward with a memory in our hearts and a smile on our faces!