What is "NORMAL"?

Everyone talks about the "new normal" after you lose a child. I don't believe "normal" will ever return to my house after my 18 year old son, Max, was killed in a car crash on 8/6/10. "Normal Died With Max", and this blog is about the life I have without him.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

Your Last Christmas

Originally posted as a facbook note 12/23/10 - If you had known last year was your last Christmas, how would that have changed things?  Would you have gotten up earlier?  Taken more pictures?  Enjoyed the people around you more?  Laughed more?  Hugged more?  Expressed your love for us all more?

If I had known it was our last Christmas with you, I would have done all those things ... and not let ONE OUNCE of stress into our holiday!!

Wesley & I were discussing how hard the season is this year without Max here, and lamenting that it couldn't be over faster,  and then suddenly God brought a thought to my mind ...  what if THIS Christmas is the last one for any of us?

You only get so many Christmas seasons in a life ... you will probably not know when your last one is ... Max sure didn't!  So no matter what you are battling or carrying this season, try to have the best one you can.  I will try to stay in the moment, enjoy the people around me, and praise God for the birth of my Savior. You

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