Daryl

In November of 2014 Daryl decided to go to Europe......alone. I was not really on board for his getaway. In fact, I told him it was really poor timing. I had a busy work week and the following week I had some free time but I wanted to spend it painting our kitchen cabinets together. He told me I could start the project without him. You can imagine how well that comment went over! I learned long ago that once Daryl had made up his mind about something there was no stopping him. He had a very part-time job with Delta cleaning planes that gave us the opportunity to fly standby. The problem I saw was this was November 17th, I was worried he could get stranded and not make it back for Thanksgiving. Off he went on his European adventure while the rest of us started in on our project. I seriously have the best family! While Daryl was away he updated Facebook with his pictures and his travel log. Friends and family were very curious why he was off on a trip alone. I received a few calls ...

I've been thinking a lot about grief and how to best deal with it and this is what I came up with. Share with my family and friends memories of Daryl. As I write this, I just got home from dinner with 3 of my daughters. Erika, MacKenzie and Natasha. They didn't want me to be alone tonight because it is my 34th wedding Anniversary. Alexa would have been with us but she is off on her honeymoon. Yesterday we celebrated the marriage of Alexa and Kohlmann Kearley. It was a beautiful day. I knew that it would be a hard day as I also anticipated today would be hard but the interesting thing is both have turned out to be surprisingly lovely. Of course there were times that emotions came up that we all felt so sad not having Daryl there with us physically. I have been praying to feel Daryl's presence or asking for a special dream, any kind of sign that he is around. Yesterday while in the temple for Alexa and Kohl's wedding the sealer said "there are angels and others ...