Wow! I love you! I love this post! I miss my Dollface so much! It seems I could feel her a lot more over the holiday. I thought she was coming to get me!! If only I had known back in the summer of 2009 that it didn't matter if you had strawberry shortcake sunglasses or the most up to date fashionable sunglasses on the market it wouldn't change how kids treat you or react to you! I would have never told that baby girl that I brought her new "cool" sunglasses! I remember so clearly her talking about "but it was yellow when..." And her msg on my answering machines from Halloween day will forever be the most special and just in Krisanna fashion she said hi to each one of us and told each one she loved us. Such a special gift from her that was just an ordinary message in her mind!! An extra special blessing I cherish. When we play them now we all say it along with her because everyone has them both memorized. At the time I was devasted to have missed her call and was frantically trying to get y'all back but today I'm so glad I missed it and now have 2 messages to save and replay all the time! Here's to 2016! I hope it is all yellow with no lemon-lime! Extra bright sunshiny yellow! I know that is all Krisanna would ever want for you (and daddy, like she said to me)!! I love the picture. I have a picture of Kelly and me holding K that year and she is in that dress. Naturally we were fighting for favorite aunt status!!! Hahahaha.
Laura- You will likely not remember me because I was a very temporary part of Krisanna's therapy care team shortly before she went to stay with her beloved Mr. God...but my goodness, do I remember your little girl! Between her ever-present smile (even in those hard moments) and that giggle... I was always amazed and uplifted by her sunny spirit! Every time I see a Caring Bridge post notification from you, I can see her smiling face walking down the hall with Mr. Terry immediately in my mind--and that makes me smile even more! I wish your family a happy 2016, one filled with as many yellow surprises as you need...
nanna girlfriend!
continue shining down on your momu & dad ....
and all the rest of your adoring family and friends who find inspiration in yellow because of you!
💛💛💛 love aunt shannon & unca mick
So beautifully written! Krisanna was, and is, forever yellow. I smiled throughout your post just picturing Her Yellowness. :) All of the little things I will never forget about her keep her close- to all of us. I remember her morning jaunts to middle school. She had to start early because she stopped to speak to EVERY person she saw along the way! The corner of the hall where Ed Lathan and I stood has a permanent Krisanna imprint. I can feel her there sometimes. Often when I have a little bite left of my sandwich (or a chip or two) I am tempted to bring it to you to keep for her. Haha! I see her in every play, in your old office when I enter it, in every turtle and in anything and everything yellow. She will always be floating through the halls, smiling and giggling even when her pain was intense. She taught so many unspoken lessons- live in the moment, find the positive even when you don't see it in front of you, when life gets tough keep pushing- to mention a few. Her joyful heart and yellow-to-the-bone spirit will live on forever. I hope 2016 brings you new memories on the couch that will sit right beside the memories on the old couch- gone but never forgotten. Have a yellow 2016, because I know she will. :)
I realize tonight, as I, too, say goodbye to the roller coaster of 2015, that you and Krisanna have given me a colour I've never really had in my palette -- yellow. Not only have you given it to me, you've given it a place of honour. Now, I hope I might return one to you -- blue -- because it is my personal Best Colour.
When you mix blue pigment and yellow pigment, you get green. But blue light and yellow light make White Light -- and somehow that seems the most appropriate, the most right.
So here's to a new year -- a year blessed with both yellow and blue -- a year full of transformative White Light; the blessings of all worlds.