[tri-family] Birthdays & Angel days

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From: "jwaite" <jwaite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

>> Susanna Whitehead 10/18/1996-12/22/1996
>
> How is Susanna's garden going?
> How are her sisters growing?


Hello Michelle and everyone,

Thanks for thinking of us today on Susanna's 12th birthday!!  Wow the years
have just flown by.
I can't believe it has been that long.    Some days it seems like yesterday
and others it seems like much longer ago....
Susanna is still very much in our hearts and minds everyday.  I still wish
her a goodnight every night and kiss her tiny face in the photo that resides
on my bedside table.  We don't visit her at the cemetary very much anymore -
just take flowers out on her birthday and anniversary.  I feel she is with
me always anyway and I'm sure there is a little bit of her in the girls...

We did visit the cemetary today and take some new flowers.  We also visited
my grandparents and my great grandmother, whom Susanna was named after.
It was a quiet day filled with happy thoughts and memories...

Michelle, Susanna's garden is non-existent at the moment :-(
We have moved house and I haven't put a garden in as yet.  I know the names
of the rose bushes that we had planted for her (and the others were starting
to get a bit "woody" anyway), so I will be planting a new little garden in
her memory, but haven't got around to it just yet.

It's been a very busy few years for us, as it has been for everyone else -
we've built a new house and put in the driveway, fences, paths, grown grass
etc.  It's all done now though and we are happy with it - just needs a
garden now.

The girls are growing up so fast.  Laura is nearly 10 and in Grade 3. Clare
is 7 and in Grade 1.  They have both grown into pretty, confident
little girls who are both doing well at school and both still running rings
around their parents (and I wouldn't have it any other way).

Johnny has been working permanent night shift for the last 2 years (which I
hate) but he doesn't seem to mind too much.
I was working as an Accounts clerk for the local YMCA for a little bit but
am now working in a job that I love, for a local Orthopaedic medicolegal
Consultant, 2
days a week.  I job share with another girl and it suits me perfectly.  My
hours are flexible, so I can still take the girls to school and stay for
assembly.  The girls either catch the bus home or Johnny picks them up, as
he is awake by that time of the day.  It's been really good for the girls
and for Johnny  to spend time together without me around.  And its
great for me too.

I read everyone's posts and join in your happiness and sadness.  You are all
always in my thoughts as well.

Thank you for remembering my little girl and us.

with loving memories,

Sue
Wife to John, permanent night shift worker,
Mum to:
Susanna (t18) in Heaven;
Laura, nearly 10 years old!;
Clare, 7 years old
from Portland, Australia



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