Thanks for this post, Jill! I wish I'd checked in sooner! This Thanksgiving was our first family holiday without my mom... and to boot, we buried my mom's mom the day before! Talk about a rough year! I was doing fine until my brother in laws mom said grace and mentioned my mom. A wave of grief came out of nowhere and I lost it. My moms absence was just SO obvious, and nobody had mentioned her until then. It was so appreciated, but so very sad for me too. Her gravestone was just put in last week too so the emotions have been flowing...

I'm not sure I'm ready for December. My first birthday w/out her is Dec 11; she always made it as special as possible to make up for it being 2 weeks before xmas. And I can't even begin to think about xmas...

I hope you and your family had a great Thanksgiving!