[RosieCotton]

Good post...thanks. Right now...I almost think all of us are noticing these anniversaries, but at the same time, if you bring them up...it's awkward. Will be for awhile, I suppose.

Well...I'm bakin' peanut butter cookies for tomorrow. Incidentally, they were her favorite kind...and one of the first things I remember "helping" make, when I was really little. (Causing more trouble than anything else, I think! She let me do the criss-crosses with a fork.

[JenB]

My little brother died thirteen years ago this February. We hardly ever talk about him, I think because I was so young, and my sibs barely remember him, but I can tell my mom still thinks of him.

I guess it's easier sometimes to not talk about things like that. At least we know we'll my brother again - like you'll see your mom. And that is a comforting thought.