Camp Lakeridge

A quick video of our time spent this summer with Danielle's beautiful kids.

LOVE will save the day!!!

Love and Strength

The Original Tribute Video

Dear Family,

I'm putting the ORIGINAL TRIBUTE VIDEO to Danielle up here.
It's the one you all loved so much, with the great song, that YouTube and Facebook made me take down, because of the song.

So, I'm rebelling and putting it up here. Hopefully they won't find me.

I know Danielle would have loved this song and I know she loves the fact that we all have watched all these videos and are keeping her alive in our hearts and thoughts!

It was great to be with you guys today and as we all know, we are a broken (but healing) group, a family without their sister, daughter, mother and friend.

Love to all of you... and to our Danielle!! Many more videos in all the years ahead... keeping her with us.

Family 2009

Mother's Day, all the family gathered in your honor, my sweet sister.
A video with pictures from our day together, mixed with memories throughout the years.
You are loved and will always be remembered.

Love, Michelle

:::::Two Years:::::

My beatuiful sister,

I won't do it. I won't retrace the steps of the last time I saw you, the last time we spoke, the last anything. I won't say "two years ago today....". At least I'll try not to.

Today I want to celebrate your beautiful life. All the people who adored you.
Your generosity, your courage, your willingness to always cook a meal and invite people over.

You were a strong, brave Mother. I know that continues. I know that you are watching over your little ones, who are not so little anymore. Please know that YOU ARE ALIVE IN ALL OUR HEARTS, our memories and our daily thoughts.

Tomorrow, Mothers Day, we will spend with your Kids. Jenny is having a slumber party with them tonight (she'll probably put make-up on the girls while Jonah and Mark play video games) and I know they'll end up watching old videos of you, and them, through the years. Jenny was always so good at videotaping at all the family events. I'm so grateful that we have all that footage now.

Two years. I can't imagine it's been two years.

I'm grateful that your struggles and pain are over.
I know you are doing great things where you are.

I love you with all my heart.
Happy Mothers Day, my little sister.
You are a Beautiful Mother.




Love,
Michelle

Video Tribute To Danielle

music by jane ford.

Calling

It's Sunday night and calls are coming in from some of the siblings. Then I call some of the others. I need to hear their voices. Give them a pep talk for the start of their week. Make sure they know I love them.

And yet. It feels so incomplete.  I can't call Danielle.

I wish I could talk to her right now. I wish it was a different kind of Sunday night, at a different time, and I wish she was healthy and living her life and telling me about what her week was going to be like and updating me about the kids and reporting about a dance she went to the night before or telling me that Mom was driving her crazy or how excited she was to wear a new outfit she bought (and bragging about the size she wears now).  I wish all of that could be discussed during a phone call between the two of us. Now. I wish it could happen now. 

It feels so incomplete. Like I'm calling roll and everyone is saying "here" and then I call her name and she can't say "here".  

I will never stop calling her name.

I love you my beautiful sister. I miss you so much. Every day.

Love,

Michelle