Day 1-It was the Best Times it was the Worst Times

Howdy!
My name is Erin. On January 28th 2012 my Mom/Best Friend died after her second battle with Breast Cancer. Today marks the two year anniversary of her passing. So I said to myself, “Self, what can I do this year that can actually do some good? Because eating a tub of Ben & Jerry’s (while initially satisfying) does absolutely nothing good in the end.” AND that my friends is how this idea came to be. As one of my lovely friends (COUGHMELODYCOUGHHI) described it, it will be kind of like ‘Coping Resolutions’ starting and ending on one of the worst days I have yet to encounter. What are these goals? I thought you’d never ask….

1. I will write about an awesome memory/characteristic of my so very awesome mother, so that one day I can show my future family.
2. I will donate AT LEAST once to Locks of Love.
3. I will run as many charity type runs I can find/do and donate to said run.

That being said I will end this post with an awesome memory…ENJOY

Memory #1-

The photo that is shown below was one of the “bloopers” from my sort of kind of senior photo shoot a month before my mom passed away. We had spent the whole day in this park and let me tell you….IT WAS FLIPPIN COLD! Anyways so the photographer used my mom as sort of his light assistant, in case you were wondering what the heck my mom is doing in this picture. Anyways I mainly chose to talk about this today just because this picture always makes my chuckle and it was one of the last good days my mom had before she went to the hospital. Also when we first arrived at this park we had no idea where we were going so we started to wander around and out of nowhere these peacocks came and CHASED US DOWN! Good times.

That’s it for now! Come back and share some laughs at the weirdness of my life with my mother….

Have a great day! (:

Love Always,

Erin

P.S.

GO HUG/CALL YOUR MOTHER AND TELL HER YOU LOVE HER K THANKS BYE