This song illustrates exactly how we all feel about you.  You were gone too soon!!  Didn't have time to accept the fact that God had other plans for you.  We went from planning a trip for you to go see your sister Ruth to your lying in a hospital getting the test results of pancreatic cancer.  Then, we go from hearing maybe 6 months to just 3 and half weeks.  What a blow that was too all of us....but especially to me!!!  I have grieved over your leaving for two years and still, that hurt is still there.  When you left me it was like a part of me left too.  This has been one of the hardest things in my life that I have had to face and accept.  But, how do you accept the fact that someone you loved so much is not here anymore and you can't touch, hug, or hear that laughter.  You are forever missed my dear mom, I just wished I would have done more.....so I have learn't that life is just too darn short to let a day go by that you don't let someone know how you feel about them.  I want to fulfill what God has put me here for.  You were My Mom, My Inspiration that keeps me going each day.  May you forever rest in peace now to be freed from the pain that you had suffered before you left us.  I am forever grateful to be your daughter, you were and are loved by me more than any words can say.  I love you Mama and miss you so much!!!  But, as when daddy was passing....that last phrase that was said...."we will see you again, remember that"!!!!!  Your daughter, Phyllis.

It wasn't always the big things you done...it was the little things.  We didn't have much when I was growing up, but I did have a mother and father whom loved me very much.  I will always cherish the times we spent mostly in Brandon, Florida where I truly grew up with my family.  The orange groves, and oh yeah, those little stories that my mom and dad both would tell us.  Now those were the days, some of these stories could just go on and on....my mom was a fighter now when she was young.  She didn't hold back any punches then....but you always knew where she was coming from.  You were a mess Doris Haley, we love you.