**Final Post**

I’ve been trying to find a way to put all the words together. Thank you. I’m overwhelmed. My work families (Forum Communications and Scheels) and Horace Elementary have been so amazingly supportive through it all... Mitch’s death and the past days have felt all a bit surreal. But, even if I’ve been a little quiet, please know I’m SO thankful. My little family has been blessed with so many gifts, cards, meals, gestures, and more... I was joking with my boss yesterday that I have a pretty fantastic way of making myself awkward, and now this. 🤷‍♀️ Please know we (me and the boys) are OK, we are working our way through our new routine, taking time to feel the feels, but also doing our best to put one foot in front of the other. For anyone who watched the funeral, we are focusing on getting through the valley, not pitching a tent and living there. In so many ways Mitch gave us a gift he will never know. We find peace that the earthly struggles he dealt with are no longer. We find peace knowing that we will meet again and he is with us always ❤️ 

(And for all who are wondering, we have no answers... His passing was a succession of bad luck. The dehydration, pneumonia, kidneys failing, then pancreas and liver, caused a chain of reactions his body couldn’t handle. The EMTs thought it was a medication reaction, but none of his meds were new to him and it didn’t appear he took a wrong dose. Please appreciate those you love, it is out of our hands, our earthly bodies are just rented...)