Summer grief

This past summer and currently the fall is throwing grief at me in a way I wouldn’t have expected. Maybe that is why it hits so hard at times. 

During one of the hot spirts this summer I was out looking for a new pool for the grandkids. Came across a “splash pad”. Thought it would be cool and the kids would like it, which they loved. As I was watching the kids enjoy it,  mom came rushing to mind as well as the flood of tears. I was thinking that that pad would be something she would have purchased. She would have loved to be sitting out there watching them. I had many moments like that throughout the summer knowing mom would have been enjoying those kids right along side me.