Letting go...
Letting go and moving forward is hard... I'm having a tough time this month and especially this week with memory triggers and wishing things were different. Tomorrow will mark a year since I lost my dog. That day was the worst day I've ever had and was the catalyst for me giving up on trying to do the right thing and just letting things play out with Him. This weekend will mark a year since he kissed me the very first time. I've never experienced a kiss quite like that one. There had been such a build up and the forbidden aspect of it all and my desperation to just escape what was happening in my life. That kiss was magic. Standing in the lifeguard boat, not another soul on the beach, the moon huge and bright and the sound of the ocean in the background. We were embracing each other against the wind that had started to pick up, we'd been huddled in the boat and decided it was late and time for me to get to my step mother's shore house. His arms were around me and ...