My Tattoo in honor of Ayden and My Dad...

The Blank Canvas

The stencils

And it begins

The outline

My "SON" flower

The finished picture

The tattoo in honor of Ayden and my Dad.

My lost loves are forever walking with me.

Didn't have the time...

I would have read you a bedtime story
I would have sung you a lullaby
I would have told you that I loved you
I would have kissed you goodbye
But I didn't have time
You were gone way too soon
One Sunday in July

I would have cried a thousand rivers
I would have drowned in the rain
I would have fallen to my knees
I would have buckled under the pain
But I didn't have time
Your brothers were twelve and three
So I had to get on with my life

I would have died of a broken heart that night
But I didn't have time...

Denial...

June is all about AJ and the excitement of school ending for Aaron and the promise of a great summer. The planning and outings. The hope of longer warm days and breezy evenings. With summer comes July. It hit me in the heart today. I realized it this morning, as I turned to leave the kitchen. I looked up and right in the middle of the wall was the July month on the calendar. Andre` must have turned the month because I hadn't. It was the calendar that I made for my family at Christmas and July is Aydens month. I think subconsciously I wasn't turning the page.Yep its July 17th and I hadn't turned the page. But there he was, his beautiful little sleeping face...This day last year we were having a baby shower. It is still hard to wrap my head around even though my heart is so wrapped around it and broken by it. It is still hard...

Aydens name.....

http://namesinthesand.blogspot.com/2011/04/ayden-jason-mcneil-thompson.html