Happy Birthday.

It's my beau's mom's 70th birthday today.

She passed away two weeks ago.  Watching his heart break has been the hardest thing I have ever dealt with.

I want to make all his pain go away.  I can't. 

I'm a control freak.

I'm a self centered control freak.

I need to celebrate life more often.  The little things.  Time with people.  Walking around.  Waking up.  Sleeping.  Eating.  Loving.  Breathing.  Hearing.  Talking.  Making mistakes...

We each have such a beautiful, perfectly imperfect existence.  Like a delicate candle flame, we can be snuffed out..gone in an instant.  All that's left are the smokey vapors swirling in the air.  But until then, we have that candle's fire, that burns and burns, brighter and brighter.  Our life.  Its pretty dang stunning.

XO.