By Tonja Condray Klein©04/27/2024
Mommy, I miss you! I know you are no longer in pain or worried about everything, but I miss you so much and wish I could do so many things that we didn’t get to do at least one more time: eat a Whopper Jr., watch all of the movies we love, listen to the record albums we would sing with, discuss history and the past, laugh together over everything that made us glad to be together, and say goodnight in person instead of on the recorded last time we did now recorded on my iPhone. “Goodnight Sam” from you and “Goodnight Ralph” from me will never be spoken here live again for us.
I will be getting a Whopper Jr. today and a strawberry cake if I can, listen to some songs as I make room in our living room for things we must keep to be reminded that you loved us all with amazing strength and made every single one of our family better with your Christian Faith, never-failing love, uncompromising sense of right and wrong, and an ability to forgive even when any of us were being thoughtless or worse. Mommy, you taught us to always be there for each other even after getting angry over something stupid. Mommy, you were an example we all need to try to be.
Mommy, I have found so many things that you kept from us that are like a treasure trove of our lives. You valued each of us and tried to keep a part of each in pictures and even things we created for you if you could. I was astounded and am still going through everything in your former home that is going to be someone else’s in another week or so. All these bits of us are a reminder that what we did MATTERED TO YOU! I can only hope we each showed you near the end how much all of your care MATTERED TO US! I hope you see all of the good things here from the balcony of Heaven.
HAPPY 93rd BIRTHDAY 04/27/2024, MOMMY! I’m sending spiritual hugs to you while praying that our family already there are giving you so many that you are somehow getting one from each of us here through them too. My Belva Riverside will continue to live in my world of Eirinth for as long as I can write the story and just like you are living a new life in Heaven now, waiting for all of us to rededicate our lives to Jesus Christ as Savior to use our gifts until you come with Him in spirit to be raised first to join us in the clouds and go to safety before the Tribulation begins. Until then…
LOVE YOU, MOMMY… ALWAYS! Tonja Renee Condray Klein
Vada Belle Tignor Condray in 1950’s but possible how she looks now in Heaven!