Sara,
For the past two years I've wondered how we are expected to carry on without you. Today, I am deciding to learn to carry on because of you. I am deciding to spend my days trying to be what you were. Kind, loving, never judgmental, and just always there when you were needed. I am going to look on my memories of you with laughter and joy instead of sadness and sorrow. And I am going to try to share happiness wherever I can, just as you did. Still, whenever I go down to the mailbox, I fully expect to hear "howdy neighbor" and look up to see you way down the road, waving your arms over your head as you make your way up for coffee. There is so much of you in everything I see, and I am trying to learn to see those things with the laughter and love that you would have. So on this day, 2 years since I last saw you, I think of you fondly. And I thank you for what you have given me. I love you!