I’m very sorry to hear that and I hope our prayers and well thoughts comfort you and yours during this time. I lost my mother last year, a week before Thanksgiving so The Holidays are a tough time for me too. As I left my father’s place on the long drive home, I heard Christmas carols Mom liked and I almost started to cry. Not a good thing being behind the wheel so I’m thankful I found John Bachelor on WABC from New York (I live north of Wheeling, WV in Ohio and my father lives near Pittsburgh). Well, the way I see it is that it is not goodbye but “I’ll see you later” although it is hard not having them with us when they were before. A small comfort is my mother came back to me in my dreams where I talked to her like I always did. Although you need to have faith and I always believed it, I just had to ask her, “is there a God?” She said, “yes.” She also said, she misses me too. Yeah, digressing, I’m glad I turned off the Christmas music, I did not want to wreck the car. I’m driving her car and the last thing I want is to see her in Heaven where her first world to me are, “Hmmm, you wreck my car.” B-) All I can say is hang in there. Does it get easier over time? For me, I don’t know but many say it does but you still don’t get 100% over it. I’d settle for 90%.
I lost Dad in August of '07, and then Mom exactly a year and a half later to the day.....this is the first Christmas I haven't had a few tears when hearing certain Christmas songs.
When I visit their gravesite, I do still tend to tell them to "Sleep in heavenly peace"...