Daddy Memories

 Today, 14 years ago, my daddy passed away.  I miss him every day. EVERY DAY.

The other day, I was in the store and there were lots of Valentine heart shaped boxes.  I was happy remembering when that my dad always got us kids a small box, which had about 5 or 6 chocolates in it.  He got my mom a HUGE box, I don't know how many pieces but it seemed like 100 to me, but it was probably more like 40 or 50. Do you remember when they made Valentine Hearts like that? They don't make them like that anymore..not at all.

None of us kids liked coconut so we always gave that piece to mama (with a tiny bite out of it because that's how we discovered it was coconut) and my mom didn't seem to mind, as far as I knew, that after our chocolate was gone, she'd find some of her's with little pokes in the bottom (so we could test if it had coconut) and a few pieces missing out of her box that were stolen by one of her 3 kiddos. 

This happy memory brought a smile to my face.

But then the next minute, tears welled up in my eyes....because I knew that daddy couldn't bring us Valentines anymore.  He hasn't been able to do that since 2012, when he passed away. Sometimes I can't believe that he is been gone 14 years.  

As you see, he passed away just 3 days before his 78th birthday.  I was praying that he would make it to his birthday but his body just couldn't do it.  

It's hard when a memory makes you happy and then makes you sad...all at the same time.