Happy heavenly birthday sweet Madeline. We miss you so much and hope that you are smiling and celebrating your birthday in peace. Keep watching over all of us and know that we think of you all the time. Love, Julie Ricketts and family.

Hi sweet Maddy! Oh how we miss you. You were always a bright light and shined every time we spent time with you. We have so many awesome memories with you and many laughs and giggles. It was so great to watch you grow into a smart and beautiful young lady. It breaks our hearts that you were taken from this earth so soon. We see your mom and brother often, especially on holidays and it warms our hearts to still have them in our lives. Your mom is so successful and making a difference in so many lives. Your brother is growing up so fast and you would be so proud of both of them. We cannot believe your little brother is 17 now. He is growing into a great young man and starting to drive...how is that possible.

We know you are smiling down on everyone today and giving your mom and brother strength as they celebrate you with so many amazing memories they have. Blessings and love,
Julie, Fred, Bradley and Sydney

I absolutely cannot believe 8 years have gone by. Each joy that comes with seeing Lorelei grow has the shadow of knowing you aren’t there with her. My sweet Maddy. Love and miss you every day.

Sweet Maddy, my heart aches for you on this Angelversary. I cannot fathom how I’ve survived 8 years without you. I’m reminded of you everyday, in the small ways, like seeing something that reminds me of you, and in big ways, like days like these. The last few weeks leading up to this anniversary have been especially challenging. Please know, you are with me every single day—through the tears and the joys.

I wish you could see your baby brother now. He’s 17 and about to be a senior in high school! He just went to prom last weekend. He was so handsome. I know you would be very proud of him. He misses you. He shows it in different ways. He has memories of you that I don’t. Some I think he prefers to keep for himself. I cherish that about him. He and I are taking the day off from school and work today to devote to remembering you.

I love you and miss you so very much my little Maddy girl. I can’t wait until we’re together again!

I got another kitten a few days ago and was reminded of when I took Maddie and Jonah to the animal shelter to get them a cat. I knew her for 2 years and now have missed her for 8. Love lives on................

i miss you maddy. i got my license! i know you would be proud of me. it’s not fair i got to and you didn’t. i miss you so much every day. i’m living everyday for you my love <3

I've never missed Maddie more than this year, what would have been her 19th birthday. I'm so glad I met her, but I've been so lost since she's gone. Love lives on.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Maddy! I can't help but wonder where life would be taking you now. You would be in your first year of college, taking finals and coming home for the holidays. I just have that feeling that you would be in the same field as your mother, helping others. That is one of the things I remember most about you is your giving heart for others.  Till we can celebrate together, we will keep your memory alive. Love you, Charlene

Happy 19th birthday, sweet Maddy. You are so missed and so loved. I wish nothing more than that we could be celebrating with you today.

7 years without you. There are no words. I just hope you can feel my love today, and everyday.

missing you the mostest today bestfriend. i cant believe it has been 7 years since we lost you. i love you forever and always maddy.

Happy 18th Birthday my beautiful girl. There are no words to express what I’m feeling right now, so I won’t even try. I love you infinitely.

happy birthday bestfriend! you would have been 18 today and thats really hard for me. I just turned 15 yesterday. i am so excited to start driving. I was gonna take my permit test today but I knew I could not because of you. I have my first show-choir performance tonight and I am super nervous but I know you will be with me through the whole thing. I am taking my permit test on thursday. at first i was really scared to drive but i know that taking it means i can set an example to be safe on the road so peoples familys dont have to go through the same thing as we did. im still kind of scared to drive because i had to see how not paying attention for one second can flip people lives upside down. I really miss you. lots of things have been going on and i just want my bestfriend here to talk with about everything. however you are not. but i hope you have a great birthday up in heaven. i will see you one day maddy. i love you so much and miss you everyday more then words can describe. happy birthday bestfriend.

Sweet Maddy,
Yesterday marked 6 years since you were taken from me. I didn’t do anything special. I stayed busy working in the yard. I thought of you in those quiet moments, digging into the earth, trying to feel your presence. Today I am frozen in grief. I’m taken back to those initial days of pain and shock 6 years ago. It hurts as much as it ever has; it never goes away. I’ve learned to let other feelings in too, like joy and tranquility, but those don’t take away the pain of not having you here with me. I’ll never understand why you were taken from this world, from all your family and friends who loved you, from a world that was better with you in it. But I do hope you celebrated your Angelversary in heaven yesterday. I’m sorry I didn’t do anything special to mark the day here on earth. But I know your loved ones were thinking of you, and I hope you could feel that. I love you always, my sweet Madeline.

It is 12:03 and I cant fall asleep because today is the day I lost my bestfriend. I have been missing you a lot lately maddy. Its been 6 years now and that blows my mind. Its been 6 years since I lost my bestfriend. It feels like it has been a lifetime and no time at the same time. I miss you a lot. I just want to hug you again. I can not wait to see you again. Im about to start highschool and im really scared. Everything is going to change and i really dont like change. I know if you were here you would be helping me. I know we would still be bestfriends even though you are three years older. I have been struggling lately. Most of the time I am okay and happy but other times it is really hard to keep going. My parents know and Im getting a lot better. I want you to know even though you are not here you have helped me get through everything. I carry on because you cant. You were taken from me and everyone else way to early. I was only eight maddy and you were only 11. You deserved to grow up and make the world such a better place because i know you would have. Its crazy to think you would be 17 now. I know I would make you drive me places and we would hangout and just be happy. I have something I need you to read. Something that i think about everyday.

I miss you. I miss you everyday. i miss the way we were young and innocent and would just laugh and sing taylor swift with jonah. I miss the time when we were watching Marley and me and you started crying and didn’t come out of your room for like an hour. I miss having our joint birthdays together even though I would secretly always get jealous of your presents because you were older. i miss every time i would come to your guys’ house and we would jump on the trampoline or walk to the gas station. I just really miss you. Why did you have to go to the park that day? Why did you have to cross the street at that moment? Why did you have to get hit by a car? Why did you have to die? you were my best friend... it’s been 6 years now since you died. i still miss you the same as i did 5 years ago. I still wish you were here. Why did this have to happen to us? to me your mom jonah your family my family. it doesn’t make sense none of us did anything to deserve this. it’s not your fault. i know that but i think that makes it harder. that there is no one to blame. when i was younger i didn’t fully understand what had happened. Now I do. now almost every day i think about how you were hit and then just gone. you weren’t really gone to start with. you were still alive. I wasn't allowed to see you because you were in a coma. then one day it was just over. My mom told me you hit your head too hard and you weren’t going to survive. once i found that out i wasn’t allowed to tell jonah. so all day i had to hear him talking about how you would get better and everything would be fine. but i knew. i knew that soon he would have to find out that his only sister wasn’t going to be alive for long. I remember when he was told. I think it was the day you died. your mom took him into a room and told him. when he came out he was bawling. That's the only time I have seen Jonah cry like that. Once he came out he started hugging me. just hugging me. Then he told me that I was like his sister now. that broke me. I didn't want to replace you, I just wanted you back. I just wanted you here hugging us. Why did you have to leave us? we needed you. we still need you. I'm trying really hard to start believing that you are in a better place. It's been really hard but I'm getting there. I just want you to know how much I love and miss you. I didn't truly know how much you meant to me until it was too late and you were gone. I'm so sorry that this happened to you. you didn’t do anything to deserve this. I can not wait to see you again. you were just a little kid. a little kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. and for that i’m so sorry. i love you madeline fisher always.

Maddy I love you more than words can express and I promise to never forget you. I absolutely can not wait to see you again. I love you Madeline Charlise Fisher

My beautiful Madeline,
Two days ago was your 17th birthday, an especially difficult one for me for some reason. Perhaps because it feels like an age that signals a transition to planning for early adulthood. I wonder what plans you would’ve had at this age. Would you know what you wanted to pursue for a career? Would you be picking out colleges? Planning to travel? Would you be working now? Saving for something? Spending with no regard? Would you be out living it up with your friends? Or maybe you’d be a homebody, or a gamer, or an artist, or even an athlete? I don’t know. I’ll never know. All I can hope for is to see you again one day. I love you. Happy Birthday.

Happy heavenly birthday, Maddie. You are loved & missed. 

Happy Heavenly Birthday Maddy! You are remembered and missed!

Happy Birthday, my sweet Madeline. Today, you are as old as I was when I met your mom and we became best friends. This thought takes my breath away and makes me so sad of the incredible life you were robbed of. I am also always sad for your mom, knowing that she was robbed too.
I love you, sweet girl, and we think of you every day.

My sweet Maddy angel, 5 years ago...
Today is the day I woke up in a hospital bed on the pediatric unit and realized it wasn’t just a bad dream. Today is the day I went from fear to shock to horror to devastation to despair to hope to confusion to guilt to all of those at once to each one compartmentalized to each one all over again and again. Today is the day I sat with your dad and had horrific but legitimate conversations about whether to keep you living with virtually no hope of recovery or allow you to die naturally and spend the rest of our lives questioning that decision. Today is the day I did the hardest thing I’ll ever do in my life: told your little brother you wouldn’t be coming home and watched the world he knew for 9 years fall apart—an image that will forever be burned into my mind. Today is the day I had to look at your grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins filled with sorrow and watch them struggle with not knowing what to do or say. Today is the day I had to pick a funeral home. Today is the day I stood by that hospital bed and watched you take your last breaths. Today is the day my old life ended and a life I never thought possible began.
And here I am, 5 years later, continuing this lifelong journey through grief, with all its ups and downs, twists and turns, never ending but never forgetting, a journey driven by love. And this I promise you my angel: your legacy will not be that of pain. Your legacy will not be overshadowed by a moment of tragedy. Your death was the worst thing that has ever happened to me, but YOU, my precious daughter, are the best thing that ever happened to me.

Hi Maddy! I hope heaven is treating you well. Happy 16th beautiful. I really hate that you aren’t here and my heart feels heavy around this time of year. The new frozen come out a month ago and I know you would’ve loved it. I always wonder why God took such a beautiful, caring, and loving person away from this world. But at the same time he probably knew you were too pure to be in this world. I miss you so much. I miss having classes with you in elementary school. I miss playing together on the playground. I would give anything to go back to fourth grade and hug you again. I hope you’re having an amazing time in heaven. I hope you’ve made new friends and made friends with all the others that lived on the earth before us. I love and miss you so much Madeline.

Happy sweet 16 my angel! Mommy loves you and misses you more than words can say.

It still hurts.. even after 4 years it still hurts. I went into high school without you and into middle school without you and it hurts. i remember talking to you about how we'd be able to go to Reitz together and i remember us doing dumb stuff with LPS and playing the Sims 4. We never got to finish playing with the family we made. I remember i was supposed to go to your house that weekend everything happened.. now everyone's trying to switch the story saying that you were throwing a big pool party or another minecraft party like you did that one time. But it hurts knowing we will never graduate together like we planned, never getting to go to prom together or do stupid little play dates again. I just want 5 minutes to see you. That's all I need, and i couldn't bring myself to go to your funeral because it just hurt too much. I've kept all of this inside for so long and finally just writing out my feelings about what happened just makes everything come back. I miss you. You were my bestfriend and I'm so lost without your advice and help. Any time I'd be upset last year I couldn't go to anyone, they didn't understand me like how you did. You meant everything to me and I miss you. I miss you with everything I have and i'd do anything to get you back. I just want you back for 5 minutes.

Maddy, It makes me sad that I never got to meet you. I look forward to that someday. I will be the Mamaw you never got to meet. It's weird to me that I can miss you, without ever having gotten to meet you. Your mommy is going to marry my son, so I would have been your Mamaw! You would be my oldest grandchild and I know we would have had a lot of special times together. Happy Birthday, sweet girl.

Happy 15th birthday in Heaven. You are greatly missed by family & friends. We were so blessed to have you in our lives. Looking forward to a great reunion someday! Hugs & love to Sarah, Jonah, & your Grandmas, Grandpas, Daddy & family & friends. You are so special!

Dear sweet Madeline,
I never had the chance to know you and didn’t even know your mom that well. We only went to school together for a short period of time in high school. But as I sit here and read these tributes to you and your mothers stories and journal entries about you and her pregnancy, my heart aches for her. So so badly. As a new mother myself I constantly worry about something happening to my child (as does every mother). The only difference here is that your mommy had to live that worst fear. And continues to live with that loss every single day. Your beautiful soul was taken from this earth way too soon. I pray for comfort for your parents and family and for peace, knowing that they have an angel looking down on them. Happy heavenly birthday sweet Madeline.

Happy Birthday, Maddy. I'm your new aunt. I get to learn about your life very day and see how you touched so many people. I'm sure we would have been best buddies. I pray for peace for your family today, and that they know we are here to support them while you are gone.

Happy 15th Birthday in heaven my beautiful angel. I hope you can feel all the love and birthday wishes everyone is sending your way. Baby, we now have new family members who sadly never got the chance to meet you, but I know if they had they’d love you just like the rest of us do. My sweetest angel, please know I strive everyday to make you proud: to live a life not taken for granted; a life not wasted doing things that don’t bring to joy; and a life devoted to keeping your memory alive even beyond my own.

Happy birthday sweet Maddy - I never had the pleasure to meet you, but know your Mom and know how much she loves you.

Happy Birthday, sweet Angel!

Happy Birthday my love. I can’t believe you’d be 14 today. The hardest part is not knowing what you’d be like at this age. I don’t know if you’re growing up in heaven or if you stay the same age or if you transcend all ages and exist in a way none of us can even comprehend. I just know I have to believe you’re there. Somewhere. Please still exist my baby. Love, Mommy

Happy birthday Madeline! We miss you dearly! You are forever in hearts. You are not forgotten! You are very present in our lives through the kindness and love we show to each other.

Happy Heavenly Birthday Madeline! I have always been a Coldplay fan but there are no stopping the tears now when I hear Yellow. It's your song now! My heart hurts for your Mom to have to endure the time apart until we are all reunited in heaven. Oh what a glorious day that will be!

Missed by family & friends.

Happy 13th Birthday / 2nd Birthday in Heaven my precious angel.

In memory of sweet Madeline. Today she celebrates her 12th birthday in heaven where she is surrounded by family and friends. In the arms of Jesus, forever free of earth's troubles.

200 days since I last saw your beautiful smile, heard your joy filled voice, or even looked into your sweet blue eyes. You officially died on May 15th, but it was 200 days ago, May 14th, that in one horrendous moment, you were taken from me forever. Everyday since then I wake up to the nightmare of a life without you, cursing the fact that I woke up at all. I miss you baby, more and more everyday. Please come visit me.

I was always remember Maddie for the strong little girl she was. She was so patient and caring with Jonah. She was truly an angel here on earth.

Sweet Madeline,
Just as I never knew true love before you came into my life, I never knew true loss until you left it. You were, are and will always be, my everything.
Love, Mommy