January FB post

This is what I posted for the January "month-a-versary"

<3 Hayden <3 A name I love to hear but don't hear nearly enough anymore. Time marches on, and another year is upon us, without you. I love and miss you now as much as I did on the day we lost you, actually even more.

(Six hearts-one for each letter of your name)
"Time heals all wounds."
I do not agree.
The wounds remain.
In time, the mind, protecting its sanity,
covers them with scar tissue
and the pain lessens.
But it is never gone.

(Six hearts)
"It's Not About Forgetting"
by Lexi Behrndt
It's not about forgetting
Or acting like the scars aren't there,
Or trying to remember your face,
Or the curve of your smile.

It's not about avoiding
The pain and the ache,
The memories I'll never hold.
The space between us.

It's about the light in your smile
Finding its way into mine.
And the fire in your eyes
Setting aflame my soul.

With love.
With compassion.
With goodness.
With hope.

It's about you.
Your legacy, your light
Your name, your memory,
And love that never dies.

You left me better.
You left me braver.
You left me kinder.
You left me with the best parts of you.

(Six hearts)
"Grief only exists where love lived first."
-Franchesca Cox

(I took a picture of the "Hayden" picture we have of the B&W photos)