I Miss You!!!

It's still so hard to believe that you're not here anymore.

I still wake up at night, thinking about you, wishing we still had you and wondering if you knew how very much you were loved. I still think about the house I grew up in and how I wish, just one more time I could stand in your kitchen, and everything would be like it used to be. I still wish that I could stand on the back porch and look out across the yard at the weeping willow tree, and the trees that you planted for us, and everything would look like it did back then. And, I wish I could walk into your house, and hear your warm voice greet me.

I hope you know how very much you're missed and loved! We will never forget you Daddy!

What's a parent to do?

So what do you say to a kid who's trained since they were 4, to play a sport that they love so much, that they worked so hard to be part of the team - shown up for each & every practice, never complains, but is benched pretty much the whole season, without being given a reason???



How do you encourage them to keep trying, to not give up? How do you restore the self-esteem that coach has taken away from them over & over again.



What do you tell a kid who's tried over & over to talk to a coach to find out what he needs to do to earn more playing time, only for the coach to shut him out and refuse to talk to him?



Of all that he's been throug in his life & all the tough battles he fought, why does this seem like the toughest?