09/03/2023
Today we honour the passing of Sandy Leemhuis who lost her battle with breast cancer 10 years ago. Loving Mother, sister, daughter, wife and friend Sandy is forever missed.
” A love letter to my mum”
Mumma there isn’t a day that feels different. Someone is missing, my heart half full. Every experience is slightly tainted because you're not here and we are so aware of your presence not with us.I watch all the other mums and daughters with their babies and children and feel jealous. I watch them enjoying the best part of their lives enjoying the kids , spoiling them and then giving them back. Watching the awards , concerts, the pickups from school and having a milkshake.What I would do to have you with me. Just a simple hug and to smell your hair, to sit in the sun and laugh together and to wipe away my tears when things are hard instead of just keeping everything inside, to paint your toes bright pink and to make you a cup of tea.I don’t want to have to be strong all the time, I want to be loved and hugged and looked after by my mum.It’s all the little things for us that I miss so much, talking on the way to work, being together at work and then talking on the way home from work sounds crazy to other people but no one will ever understand how incredible our bond was. My best friend, my heart. I often tell the kids of stories of you and wish so much to bring you back to life by seeing their smiles. I see you in our children and know just how much you would have given to them, a love so big I feel like they have been robbed of. I feel like I have been living underwater for the last ten years slightly disoriented, finding it hard to see and breath, some times I guess you just have to learn a new kind of normal. I know you always said to me 'please don’t be sad, just be happy and smile and don’t lose your sparkle', I try because it’s what you wanted and I would do everything to make you happy and so I try to be more like you for our children our family and for myself because you are my soulmate always and forever and I would give you the world if I could. I love you Mumma to the stars and back #########x
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