This weekend as a whole was incredibly hard for me. While I may have posted some small things here and there – I kept my computer off virtually the entire weekend until last night.

I made it through Friday by the skin of my teeth, just to wake up Saturday morning down in the dumps again. I knew a couple hours later I would be going to start my memorial tattoo piece for my sister, but it didn’t take the pain out of the process.

I got the kids fed, dressed and on the way to my mothers house where they would stay for a couple hours, till I returned.

After I dropped them off, I went and picked up my sister son Dylan. My 15 year old man of a nephew. Talk about making me feel incredibly old. I look back at the days when he was a toddler and wonder where it all went?!

We headed to the Tattoo shop where I have gotten the majority of my work over the years and settled in to get a small daily reminder of my beautiful sister.

After I was finished up there, I brought Dylan back home, and picked the kids up. It became nothing short of a marathon considering I had to be to church for a mass at four. My nephew and brother-in-law attend the same Catholic church in my hometown, and since my sister got sick Dylan has become very close with the Priest there. As a family we attended the mass where Dawn was mentioned in memorial. And there was also a baptism of a new little baby boy. It was a really nice service.

On Sunday our family decided we would write messages to Dawn on Balloons and release them up to heaven. A good friend of my fathers is a minister of some type and he joined us for a little prayer before we let the balloons go.

I made a video of it.

Tags: Balloon release, Dawn, Memorial

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