It is hard to believe that it has been just over 10 months since mom went home. It seems like it was just yesterday that we were saying our goodbyes but then other days it seems as if it was ages ago. I was thinking just a few days ago about our final moments together the day that she passed and how they are so vivid and fresh in my mind. I can remember how she looked and smelled and how it felt to give her the hugs and kisses that would be our final here on earth.

Although moms whole funeral was planned out 3 months before she passed away, for whatever reason, we didn’t think to pre-order her headstone. Since mom passed away in the middle of October, we put it off since we knew that it would not get set before the ground hardened and we would have to wait for spring. Plus, we were just to emotionally drained to pick out and make decisions about the one last detail that made it all so final.

So after pinpointing a time that Lindsay would be in Ohio and both of our brothers would be around, we finally went and picked out a headstone together. We were originally told that it would be set by the 2nd week of July but after a few different delays, it is finally here. They set it on Friday afternoon which worked out well with Lindsay flying in on Sunday, we were able to stop by on our way home from the airport. We stopped and picked up some roses from a store down the road but will have to get some nice looking artificial ones later that will last.

Up until the headstone arrived, the only thing marking her gravesite was a small tag that had her name on it and her age at the time that she passed. I honestly hated going out there because it was so impersonal. I know that it is only moms body that is there and her spirit is gone but it is so nice to have a place to put flowers for her instead of just laying them on the ground. I think that her stone turned out beautiful and shares important little pieces of who she was and the kind of life that she led during her time here.

The scripture that we had engraved on her stone was her very favorite verse and it is so adequate to her journey.

“I will repay you for the years the locusts have eaten–the great locust and the young locust, the other locusts and the locust swarm–my great army that I sent among you.”

~Joel 2:25~

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