John

 On September 14th, my brother John had a heart attack and passed away.  It was a shock and we are all still working through it.  I have lost a lot of people that I love and I consider myself to be someone who understands grief and knows how to work through it.  But losing a sibling is different from anything I have ever felt in my life.

No matter what was going on or what was happening, no one in this world could make me laugh like my brother John.

Losing a sibling is losing a part of your family, part of who you are.  And it is lonely.  

John, we will miss your smiles, sarcastic comments, and jokes every day.  No one will ever make me laugh like you did, ever. Love you brother. 

September Recap

 So I missed the whole month of September.  September was not the best month for us over here.  On September 14th I lost my brother John. It was sad and heartbreaking for all of us but he will get his whole own post when I am ready.

On this post I want to recap all the good stuff that happened this month!

We spent our last weekend up at the lake!

We all started school (I will do another post with our goals for the year).

Claire started 10th grade!

Oliver started 7th grade!

We snuck back out to the lake for one more beach weekend!

Mark got COVID on my birthday so we couldn't do much.

But we celebrated with some take out chinese and sushi!

And I read more books!

Claire went to homecoming!

And the girls all wore heels this year and not just sneakers!

And that was September in a really quick nutshell!