Anniversary days and holidays near them or special to the departed are especially hard... maybe trying to celebrate his life and love by doing something special... that he enjoyed doing, and deriving joy from it might help. He'd have loved that, and you can derive joy from knowing that as well. Good thoughts going your way, bonzette. He'd not like knowing his little girl was crying. [e digicons]:karma:[/e]

Remembering is not always the easiest thing we do, especially when it involves loved ones and feelings for them.  What it does provide thought for though is the capability for others to know them.  Keep the scrapbooks and mementos handy and add to the pictures each anniversary, the grand and great grand children will appreciate knowing where their family has been, is and are going. 

He loved a beer, and he liked to listen to good  'ol Slim Dusty and Tex Morton,just to name a few and he always marched in the Anzac march  for both dawn and morning service. He was a cook in the air force and I guess that is here my love for cooking came  from. He was a kind and gentle soul who loved his family and friends . I am going to light a candle  and have his picture's beside it  and then maybe I will have some of these or more  we will see how I go cos I am not a huge drinker of beer

and thank you doc,LizMarr, Uvah, Philly, and RnD. your thoughts  and words mean a lot to me