This Little Girl...

This little girl has the enviable knack of making all the bad things go away.  She can turn a day that should have surely been filled with sadness.....into a day full of fun.

This little girl doesn't know it yet, but she has the capability of melting two very gullible hearts into a big pile of gooshy love.

This little girl looks into your eyes with an innocence that tells you things will always be alright.

This little girl loves this big guy so much.....to you my dear readers, he's the Big Boober.....to her, he's just Pops.  These two have their own unspoken language.....it's all in the way they look into each other's eyes.

This little girl recently made Pops and Bopbop (that'd be yours truly) forget that there was a darker day in our not too distant past.

This little girl brought love and laughter into both our hearts on this most recent day.

This little girl softened those memories that will never go away.

This little girl put peace into our hearts.

This little girl reminded us that life has to go on.....if not for her.....then for ourselves.

Now for a little history.....Saturday, July 10th, was the anniversary of the murder of our 20-year old daughter, Amanda.  That is the day that the Big Boober and I knew in our hearts that Amanda ceased to be the person that we all knew and loved.  What remained that day was just her body.....one that she didn't need anymore.  Three days later on July 13th, the doctors informed us that she had died.....what a cruel joke.....because before the night was through, we got a call that she was still alive.  Then two days after that, on July 15th.....she was officially declared brain dead.  For those of you who aren't aware of it.....we donated many of her body parts, bone, skin, etcetera to others who so desperately needed them.....so in retrospect.....our dear Amanda lives on.  2010 marks the 6th anniversary of her passing on to a much better place where she can tappity tap on the computer all the live long day.....she can play with all the little children that she so dearly adored.....and she has hopefully taken that trip to Japan that was on her wish list.

Then there was that little girl who made these past few days something special.....she reminded us to love life and to celebrate the good memories.....and it was now time to let the bad ones of that fateful day just go away.  Sounds simple, doesn't it?  But childlike innocence is just that.....simple.