Oh boy….this is a really tough one!

Today is the 4th of July, the celebration of America’s birthday.

The 4th of July was a very important, BIG holiday in my family. Ever since I can remember, every year we had a big, all-day-long holiday celebration with friends and family.

* Getting up early to decorate the house
inside and out,
* A parade in the morning with coffee
and Dunkin’ Donuts,
* A big BBQ in the afternoon with my
Dad always manning the grill, and
* Fireworks in the evening

Always so much fun, never realizing at the time how precious and treasured those days were.

Never could I ever have imagined that soon those days would only be memories.

Missing those days so, so very much. What I wouldn’t give … for just one more time.