Thank you Amy! Just knowing that you cared enough to respond means more than I can say. Having my sweet daughter in your prayers is important to me. She is one of the sweetest, good and rightous people I have ever met. The worst problem she ever gave me, was her room. We will not discuss how that was. An old family friend listened to me complain one day and asked if she was on drugs, No was the answer. Did she break curfew? Again no. He went through a list of all the usual and even unusual problems teens give their parents. All the answers were no. He just looked at me and told me to shut the door. I did. She just doesn't deserve all that she endures. Still... sweet and faithful to the gospel, as can be. Thanks again. Kaye

Hi Christy, I never did get your reply on this. You had replied under someone else. I'm sorry about just now getting back to you. I hope you are still around. I've not been to WLSF for sometime now. I hope everyone is doing well over there. I'll have to drop in sometime, tell me how are you doing? I hope we see you around again soon. You look great! Amy

Kaye, What a beautiful name. I'm so sorry for your families loss. Your family will certainly be in my prayers. I wish I had some real good words of wisdom, but Laurie is certainly right, you will all meet again in the future, always remember that. ((((HUGS)))) Amy

Linda, I'm sure you will do great. So many older people are having the surgery done. I could not have been happier with my choice to have surgery! I wish you well on your journey. It's not much longer now. Amy

Kaye, I just had to respond to this as I lost 3 pregnancies; one went as far as 6.5 months and was stillborn. That one was the hardest as we had to endure years of fertility treatments and this was the 3rd pregnancy that went very wrong. We had planned to call her Holly as she was due around Christmas and ended up giving her the middle name of Celeste, as we knew she would be waiting for us in the Celestial kingdom. I know your hearts are grieving and asking "why?" Know that you are in my prayers. This is probably the biggest heartache a parent or grandparent can go through. It just doesn't seem fair ... I kept thinking why can abusive, drugged out or even teenage mothers have kids they don't even care for, but someone who can devote their life to raising and loving a child gets theirs taken away? Let the house go; the cleaning can wait ... just be there for your daughter. You share a similar tragedy and hopefully this will draw you both closer. Take comfort in knowing that you can again be reunited as a family someday. It is so hard to understand why our Father in Heaven would take these special spirits away from us, but in time hopefully you will understand. (It took us many years and the answer came to us one day in the Celestial room of the temple and we know she needed to be there to guide and help some family members understand the fullness of the Gospel and this gave us solace.) Our other 2 daughters (Yes, I went on to have one more "miracle baby" without fertility treatments) know they have a sister that they can be with forever, if they live in accordance with the teachings of the Gospel. Take care ... Laurie