What to do?

I was never going to post about this, but I thought how can I have a blog about “the life of me and my family” and just leave this out.

I had a best friend in the whole world. Her name was Amy Morton and I loved her like a sister. She understood me better than any other person I have ever met in my life and I understood her.

We were bound through very serious and very personal struggles. We both mothers went through the joys,  frustrations, dilemmas, and determination of being parents. Together we got clean; got dirty and got clean again. We kept in touch through letters and telephone calls when we were at various rehabilitation centerss. We cheered each other on when we were really making it. We cried with each other when we gave birth to our beautiful babies. We cried when we thought her first son had autism and then again when we found out he didn’t. I cried when she made me the Godmother of her little ones and she cried when she thought I’d replaced her with my sister as the Godmother of my only son. (Long story, after tears and a better understanding that got worked out and Amy was made my son’s official Godmother)

When I moved to our little town of Colborne Amy was the best part, I got to have play dates all the time with my best friend and our kids soon became great friends. We celebrated birthdays, Christmas, and every other season because Amy would never ever forget to include any of her friends and family on any occasion and a gift was always waiting. My son and I would walk down our apartment steps and there would always be a little gift for Ethan; something small but that she knew he would love sitting there waiting to Brighton his little day. She was truly selfless, she touched more people than I could dream of touching in a lifetime!

A couple of months ago Amy was on her way to pick up her son, Dal and then stop at my house to meet up with my husband who has been friends with her for a lifetime when she hit a huge tractor, Amy passed away after  a short battle to save her life. I miss you Amy every day of my life, I think of you more than I ever thought I could think about anything. I would give anything to just be able to give you one more hug like the one I gave you the day before you passed when life was simple, you know- you go to the park with your kids and mine and I go to work…and I’ll call ya tomorrow, but tomorrow never came and it never will.  The pain will never go away, I know that and it hurts, Amers I love you.

Kerry

Vacation!

I have a vacation coming up from work. The vacation starts on the 29th of this month and ends on the 9th. I am pretty stoked because I have not had any proper vacation since I started back in february! Sean and I are taking Ethan to the KOA in Brighton. The KOA is a place where you can go and camp, it has a heated pool and outdoor hottub. We rented out a cabin for the long week-end! My parents and my sister fiance are also going to tag along. We have not gone camping al together since we were little kids, so because I will have my own little one I am even more excited!

On a scarier not, today grandfather went in to have surgery. he was diagnosed with lung cancer not that long ago and the surgery is to remove the lobes that the cancer attaches itself to. I will be calling today a little later to make sure that everything went well, I am also making a concious effort to pray…and pray I will and have. I love my granfather, he is a great man. He is kind and warm and loving, he’s a papa and everything that you would expect a papa to be! I just hope that we get to spend much more tme with him, and that my son can get to know my papa like we all do.

Kerry

KERRY

From the name of the Irish county, called Chiarraí in Irish Gaelic, which means “CIAR’s people”. Kerry started being used as a name for both boys and girls in the 20th century, especially in Australia. It comes from the Irish county of that name. There may also be a connection with the Welsh Ceri; this is probably a form of the name Ceridwen, goddess of poetry, whose name meant something like “fair (or blessed) poetry.”
Latin: Dear, Irish: Pure , Spanish: Dear , Welsh: Near the castle, Gaelic: Ciara’s people; dark eyes, Irish: Small and dark-skinnedGaelic: Dark eyes , Gaelic: Small and dark-skinned

SEAN

Sean is a very popular male first name and an uncommon surname (source: 1990 U.S. Census). Sean name is also used for girls. The name Sean is variant of name John and is of Irish origin. In Irish name Sean is actually written with fada on a i.e., Seán and is pronounced as Shen in Irish but now this name is common in English and is just pronounced as Sean.
Sean name either means, “GOD is Gracious” or “God’s Gift”.

ETHAN

Ethan means strong and optimistic, solid and enduring, or permanent. The name Ethan appears eight times in the Hebrew Bible. Ethan the Ezrahite, is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. It may be that Ethan was a cymbal-player in King David’s court. He authored Psalm 89. Charles Spurgeon theorized that this was the same person as Jeduthun. Ethan was the 4th most popular boy’s name in the US in 2006, and was ranked 19th in the UK.

Wonderland

 

 

 

 

We all went to wonderland last week-end. It was Ethan’s very first time and I had not neen in so long! We had an absolute blast. It was my employee summer picinic so we got to go for a very very good deal. The drive up was great about an hr and a half total driving and we did not hit traffic at all not there and not back either! It even gets better than that! It rained and when I say it rained I mean torrential down pour. You may be asking yourself why is this A good thing? Well we spent the time that it was pouring rain going into the inside area’ for example a 3D SpongeBob movie; it was the funniest this watching Ethan reach out and try to touch the characters! When it was time to go back to the rides we were surprised to see that everyone had left and we had free reign of the park, the best! We did not wait for one ride, which is great because Sean and I probobly would not have been able to go on barely any, think cranky impatient three year old!  So we took turns between the awesome rides, kidville and Hanna Barbarra land. I have NEVER had more fun! We will definatley be doing that again!

Peace Kerry

Ethan’s Getting Baptised!

On Saturday of this week my little angel is getting baptised it is been a long time coming and I am very happy for him! The baptism itself is taking place at the church I myself was baptised in, and I am very nostalgic about that. The church itself is a catholic church it is one of the most is the most beautiful church I have ever been in. I will post a pic from the ceremony this coming week-end.

Peace,Kerry

This is what it looks like from outside, but the inside murals are what is really breathtaking!