Superhero Princess

On last Wednesday, we left early morning for our first trip to the City of Angels since 2016. Flashback to 2016- Hannah was 6 months old.  It was Hannah's first summer, so we freeloaded with Amanda to her conference.  It didn't take too much convincing (the conference was across the street from Disneyland).  By the end of the trip we just took, it would be the longest amount of time that both Amanda and I spent away from Hannah in her life.  Hannah has loved Mickey forever. We made it to LA.  Amanda and I stopped in Santa Monica before we went out to the conference.  I made sure to let everybody know why I was there.  I wore my an Audrey shirt and my Audrey pin that my colleagues made for us at the beginning of last school year.  We jumped back into the car and met Brad, Sam, and Jason for dinner in West Hollywood at the farmer's market.   We weren't in Anaheim this time.  We were in downtown LA.  We were at the Partners agains...

After 8 months of not having Audrey with us, some of the every day interactions we had with Audrey have become less present in our memories.  While there is not an hour that we do not think about and feel her absence, it is becoming clear to us that she has not been here for 8 months, and we don't want to forget anything about her. For this reason, Amanda started the process of writing down all of her memories about Audrey.  This is a serious and emotional undertaking for her.  I appreciate what she is doing, and I can help her by filling in some holes with my perspective. I appreciate what she is doing. Her endeavor has inspired me to look at some memories of Audrey.   In addition to articulating memories of Audrey, during this period of grief, I have felt much guilt.  One of the senses of guilt has been that in 8 months since Audrey has passed, we have been able to do many things that weren't a logistical possibility with Audrey.   This past Sun...