[JenB]

It's my little sister's birthday, too. A good day for being born.

Sounds like you need some company tonight. Don't just go home and sit. Are you able to... remember the good times about your mom? Or do you still just miss her too much?

[RosieCotton]

We're gonna play music - not just family, but a big group.

The subject probably won't even come up. It's a bit hard, 'cause I'd like to bring it up, but there's no real way to do it without dragging things down.

I can talk about her more now than I could a year ago, for sure. Still miss her an awful lot, though. The boys have each other and Dad, though of course that isn't quite the same as having Mom there, too. But she was more to me than she was to the boys in a lot of ways, I think. Just the way it is, being a daughter - and the oldest to boot.

But this group has helped a lot, honestly. And it WILL get easier. But special days are still hard.