And so came his birthday

Posted by Sammy on Feb 25th, 2010 | no comments home title

Before today came I was afraid it would be extremely difficult on me. As if being single again on Valentine’s day didn’t suck enough I had to deal with Gary’s birthday soooooooo soon. I wasn’t ready, but really when would I have been ready? This morning I got up and thought it was going to be a sad day and just couldn’t fathom even saying Happy Birthday but as the day went on I realized if it weren’t for Gary’s birthday I wouldn’t have had him in my life and I wouldn’t have Mikey right now.

The day started by me dropping Mikey off at daycare. Then I headed downtown to meet my wonderful friend who is also my estate attorney to sign all of my official estate documents. For Me god forbid anything were to happen to me. The documents are safe and locked up in their vault but its all official. I have a will, a living will, a trust, and I’ve designated a guardian for Mikey. It’s all official. Something Gary and I never got around to doing, I did it. He’d be so proud.

The day ended with us singing Happy Birthday while releasing two balloons. Yes I know before you get all preachy about how its NOT good for the environment, I already know that. Gary’s mom picked out 2 balloons, a 3 and a 4 since really who makes a 34 balloon. We got back to my parents house and as the sun was starting to set we sand Happy Birthday to Gary and released the two balloons and stood there watching them fly away. What was amazing was that these two balloons that were not tied together flew off and stayed close to one another the entire way up. We watched until they were these two tiny dots in the sky.

So overall his birthday wasn’t that bad of a day. Did it suck, of course, I’d much rather have him here to take him out to dinner at Outback and embarrass him as they sing Happy Birthday to him (which he HATED). But he’d much rather us celebrate his life on his birthday because even in his short 33 years on this earth he touched so many lives.