A friend ask me the other day if our home was getting back to normal. I had to stop and think for a minute, I replied, do things ever get back to normal after losing a parent. She knew where I was coming from as she had lost a family member a few years back. You never get back to normal but you learn to go on and live life in a different normal way.
As many of you know there are tons of paper work. But along with all the paper work you run across something tucked away in a box that makes you laugh out loud. Sister-in-law Barb and I found a poem that Tommy had written about her when she was a little girl. Such sweet words written about his first born. We also found one Tommy wrote in his ledger book about working at the American Can. There are still shoe boxes and desk drawers to explore, we are eager to find things make make us smile.....