Unforgettable

IMG_8894CM, originally uploaded by TH.Photography.

{2002}
After finally healing up after a minor surgery, my fil was able to go home from the hospital. Knowing it was inevitable that we step up our level of care of he and my mil, my husband and I made plans to build a house big enough for our 7 y/o son (and his pride and joy), us and them to all live in together. Thursday was the big day; the house was done and the unveiling was to take place on Friday. It's never a good thing when the phone rings late at night, and as I listened to my her frantic exclamations, my husband jumped into his car and sped 'home.' to be with his mom and see his dad. He didn't make it before my dear father in law passed so unexpectedly. We still moved into our new house, but it was an incomplete family...and in more than one way.
{2003}
After years of infertility, we found ourselves pregnant on the first anniversary of Pop's death. This photo shows my oldest walking back from introducing his brother for the first time to the grandpa he'll never know this side of heaven. {2008}
I haven't printed it for a couple of reasons: it's still pretty much unedited as I'm not sure the feel I want for it to share and more accurately, it's such a raw moment in time. What would people think when/if they saw it in my home on display? I knew I wanted to have it for...something (a frame? a scrapbook page? a canvas?) but I'm still not too sure what I want to do with it. It's both a moment I always want remember as I honor his memory, his life, and at the same time it's one I so often want to forget needs remembering at all.