SEPTEMBER...

September has come and gone and with it a  host of emotions...Michael and I got married on September 15, 1979 ... it was a beautiful fall day...the sky was an amazing blue, the clouds were perfect and our wedding day was the best that it could be...we were young, our families were a bit dysfunctional and we made the best of what we had...I remember walking down the aisle and being afraid of what was to be and I remember saying to myself "oh, well...if it doesn't work out we can always get divorced"...spoken like a true immature 22 year old :)...but we made it thru all those crazy hard times...struggles with the families, raising our two boys, making a home, loving each other, fighting like crazy, loving like crazy, laughing like crazy...all in all, we had a good life and just as Matthew and Joseph were finishing with college and we were ready to learn to be just the two of us again, BAM...cancer invaded our lives on September 27, 2007...it was another beautiful fall day, the sky was an amazing blue and I remember when the doctor said "it's cancer"...Michael was sitting on the table and I was behind him, with my arms around his shoulders so I don't know what his face said when he got the news, but I know that I buried my face in his hair and held on to him, and I never let go. That day was the beginning of an amazing three years for us...all those years before were just a dress rehearsal for what we were going to go thru ...and even though Michael lost his battle with cancer on July 24, 2010, he fought a good fight and the love and devotion that we had for one another grew with each passing day...to me September is our "love" month...always was, always will be...