In two years, during 2008 and 2010, I lost my mother and gained a daughter. Life does even out at the end of the day, all of our pains and turmoil are squared away by other, more wonderful events. Im not saying im happy my mother passed away of course im not, but Life has given me a new stroke of happiness as if to apologise for running out on mum.
The grief now, although still in my heart, has been largely replaced by a tidal wave of Love and dare I say it euphoria. Every single day I watch Elwen grow and do new things, the sadness of losing my mother is less. Less suffocating.
