Loving Mary Forever

 

👼Today is a very special day.  It's the day I celebrate my Mary ❤️!  13 years ago she became an angel.  She is and always has been my shining 🌟 star!  My dear sister, my dear friend! 

She may be gone from Earth but she is very much a part of me everyday.   Showering me with amazing signs and love from above, strengthening my faith, keeping me strong.  

Thank you everyone for loving and celebrating Mary with me!

#LovingMaryForever

Happy Birthday Mary

❤️ 🎉  HaPpY BiRthDay my beautiful sister ~ my twin soul!  

I will forever celebrate you!  

I know you are still with us, showing us the magic in life and that love is what matters most and giving us faith that there is so much more than this.  

I miss your physical presence but your energy and spirit is everlasting - through me all will see..... our angel Mary! 🕊️👼

My Sister - A Gift

What a gift my sister was and is to me!  

The day she went to heaven a little red bird was sent my way - taking away the pain for just one moment as he stared at me - directly into my eyes - my life was forever changed - I lost my sister on earth but her soul survives and shares through me the real gifts of life!  

This one here as we know it is only the beginning.... I know that now for certain and because of that I'm able to live my life as it should be - free from fear and full of love because that is what matters most - that is what we take with us and what we leave behind!  

Thank you little red bird sent from above - guiding my life showing us all pure love! 

~LRBChirps

SISTERS

I just love this artist:  Suzanne Millius at Studio3ten!

Mary Confirms her Love in a Dream

My beautiful soul sister Jen Dio had a dream with my sisters Mary and Lisa in it. What a beautiful sign of Mary confirming to Jen that she is very much a part of our sisterhood and that she loves her too. We don't have to have the same blood to be sisters. Our hearts and souls are somehow connected. Friends are the sisters we are blessed to choose. It took Mary passing away to bring my Sweet Soul Sister (SSS) to us, 3000 miles away. Distance doesn't even matter with the love we have in our hearts for each other!!

"Last night I dreamt that you, Lisa, Mary, and I were all sitting around and chatting it up. We were happy and content. We were talking about life, love, and loss and comforting each other and supporting one another. The twist? Mary was on the other side but the three of us still saw her, heard her, and felt her as if she was here in the flesh. I know her spirit is with you everyday, as if her body and physical self never left the Earth. I really feel like she came to me to share this with you. She is with you, Jeni. I know you know this. ;-) She loves you very much and she's here more than ever, loving you and guiding you on your journey through life. =) I love you my SSS.........."

For My Sister

I was going through my cards from my B~day last month to put away in my Keepsake bin when I decided to re-read the front of my B~day card from my sweet sister Lisa. I must have taken more time to read the words because I felt like it was about the memory of our sister Mary.

From one sister about another sister to a sister!

Somehow its all connected. Mary, Lisa and Me!

(Lisa & Me in Texas the day of Mary's wake)

My sisters

Mary~Jeni~Lisa

Just remembering our wonderful days together as sisters and friends.

I miss those days when my sisters would come visit me in Houston......

I treasure those days and dream of them when I'm feeling down.

It amazes me how life goes on even when someone you loved so much is gone.

I can't stand it that your gone sweet Mary and miss you everyday.

Thank God I have your kids and pictures and memories.....

I'm grateful to have this blog to honor you and cherish you!
You may be gone from us physically, but you will never be forgotten.

I know you are still with us. I'm lucky to see your signs.....

I share them with everyone you love and I pray it helps.

I was blessed with your life and now I'm blessed with your Spirit!

Playing dress up

These were the days. Woodway Square Memories. 1995-1998! The best times, the best neighborhood, the best apartment. I had my own walk in closet that would fit a twin bed, dresser and nightstand (if I tried) .... hehe! It was fun filling it and even more fun playing dress up with my lil sisters. They would come over and say "Let's go through Jeni's closet".....

Mary in the beautiful cardinal red, me in the powdery blue and

Lisa in the hot to trot black dress with rhinestones!

Mary had on hot red 3" heels to match, I was in my 2 1/2" clear healed with fainted gold straps & Lisa, well....we put her in lower black heels. She is the tall one of us!

Everyone came to our home for all occassions. Every weekend was filled with family and friends fun!

Awwww ~ Woodway Square! So many memories to Cherish....

for all of us!

My Sisters

I love my sisters so much..... this is a nice picture of Lisa & Mary!

I know Lisa treasures this picture too - it was the last picture taken with our sis.....

That is why I am posting it on "Memories to Cherish",

our timecapsule of moments to remember ~ Loving Mary Forever!

I wasn't there, but I wished I was. This picture was taken in San Antonio, just a few weeks before Mary left us - 3/22/08.

The Love of Sisters

My Sisters...... the world is a better place when you have sisters!



Below is a great quote I like alot - it makes me think of my family ~ how their love and inspirations have passed along to all of us siblings and now to the world around us. Thank you mom! Thank you dad!!

"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people".

-business legend Lee Iacocca

Redwinged Blackbird

I loved being your sister Mary!

I was so proud of you. You always made me laugh & smile. It wasn't until the end that you made me cry. It wasn't even you, it was the evil disease & the bad circumstances Mary! I know it wasn't you.

I sure hope you are laughing up there... I know you are laughing at me and my feelings of insanity with all these birds and the coincidneces. It all seems so surreal & I think I'm going crazy.

BTW: I see the new bird that's been brought my way ~The RedWinged Blackbird which if you google it, we can all see that its from Wisconsin. He is in my backyard and soooo beautiful..... you were born in Wisconsin sis. What on earth is this RedWinged Blackbird from Wisconsin doing on Long Island?? I don't know and I don't care. I get the hint sis.

"In this life we learn that we are not perfect & some of us focus on those imperfections rather than how God sees us: UNIQUE AND PERFECTLY IMPERFECT ~ A work in progress. If only we could see now what he sees, then we will easily accept His creation and live a more peace filled life! " jeni

1992 - Sisters in motion

1992 - I was in Houston, trying to grow up and you were half way through college cheering your heart out at Howard Payne University! You were such an inspiration making your way to the top as head cheerleader, top of the Dean's List and getting ready to teach and coach the kids to come!
We were so proud of you sis! Still are! Heaven is blessed with you as were here.....

My Sister...

JENI & MARY

We were two peas in a pod for a long time.... you were my little minion! I loved being your big sis and you were such a wonderful lil sis!!

I was so lucky when I got you. You were a lil spit fire, that was for sure. So unique and a personality all your own. I loved you for that. Somehow, I was always the one who was able to do things right for you. Somehow, you would listen to me. Well, most of the time... hehe! But eventually you would come around.

One memory that stands out is a time when we were just six and three. I had upset you about something and you were crying in your bed, so I decided to apologize by giving you a hug. You wouldn't have any of it. You tried pushing me away. I stood back with my hand on my hip and said, "Fine, give me my hug back then"! I started pawing at you to get it back. It tickled you and you started laughing, so I tickled you more and we laughed our way back to being friends again.

You were more than a sister Mary, you were my best friend and my #1 fan, as I was yours!!

I miss you sis, but am so grateful for all our memories. I have soooo many, I don't know where to begin. I will capture them and share them on my "Memories to Cherish", because that is what this blog is for - YOU MARY! I love you more than you know! I refuse to shut the door on 35 years of your life... you were too too special to be hidden in my head as silent memories.

A Sisters LOVE

Sisters by Chance..

Friends by Choice..

Best Friends if Lucky!

How lucky we are - Jeni, Mary, Lisa - Friends for Life!

This is a fun picture....

Mary & Lisa wanted to raid my closet & play dress up ~ I was game! (Yes, Lisa was the only one with heels on - that's why she towers soooo much over us!)

Sisters Alike

There is just something about this picture I like so much.... for one, we all shared the common bond of cheering and dancing! Each with our own special technique on it. I was the dancer, Lisa was the cheerleader & you sis were both! Just shows you, that you could do be anything you wanted. Anything you set out for. You always amazed me and always made me so proud! You were a wonderful lil sis to me, looking up to me and following in my footsteps and then you were a wonderful big sis to Lisa, loving her and including her in everything unlike alot of big sis's .... I bragged and bragged about you and was so overwhelmed with pride for you. Especially after going through what you went through in high school and then bouncing back into life with a vengeance. A vengeance of achievements! I love you so much! For who you were. For what you stood for and how you lived your life.

The other reason I like this picture is because of how it captured each of us.

Lisa, standing strong and tall, just like who she has always been. Beautiful and strong in her faith. You, sitting there so comfortably in the splits bursting with pride and an energy that is and was so contagious. I see it! Then me, just standing there as the power of example, but yet looking down as a big sister does, caring for you, just as you needed.
What a blessing to have what we all had together. Triangle of love. Three hearts that beat as one.

You are still with us sis and we have the memories to live on. We are your fan club and I am proud to be the President of it :)... hehe!

Lil Mary & Me

Sweet sweet lil Mary.... cute as can be!
I loved being your big sis!

Cherished Memories!

Sweet Memories

Sugar toast, peanut butter crackers, butter fried tortillas,
skittles, funyuns, anything sweet, it didn't matter to us! These were our treats.

You'd ride your bike as fast you could and return to me in the nick of time. All i had to do was tell you I was timing you and your little legs peddled faster than the wind. I would give you a list with a couple bucks of cash and tell you the change was all yours. But the catch was to beat your last time! It didn't matter if it was a nickel or dime, you did it all for the time. The race! I guess now that I think about it, you were runny the test of time!
Those were the days sweet sis that i would give everything back for. Those summer days of eats & treats & fun in the sun! Well, a little trouble came with us two. How could it not? It was fun of course, a little rebellion too. We had each others back that for sure is true! How bout the time we caught our babysitter smokin and used that to get what we wanted? hehe - so mean we were to make her cry... it didn't matter to us, all we cared about was that she could drive. Drive us wherever we wanted in lieu of her secret to be kept. Roller Rink bound everytime! Only we pushed her to the limit making her quit.
I wish i had you back to tell you what to do. I knew you'd always listen. Maybe not right away, but i knew you sis & you always came around. I think it stems back to your eagerness to please. Oh, you did impress!!! Cheerleader, triathelete, deans list, teacher, coach, mommy & friend, just to name a few! All your accomplishments despite set backs - you kept looking forward and upward and got your titles & trophies & dreams.... until one day you broke your wings. Times like this - I can only wish that I knew what I know now and I would not be here, I would be there pounding on your door. I'd camp out, kidnap you and keep you until you were healed. Strong enough to fight your fight with unbroken wings.
I know your wings are completely healed where you are.. I only wish it was my will, not yours that has been done!
That's it tonight sis... I was just reminishing some. I have alot more, but will have to share later. I can only take lil bits at a time. My throat closes up and my eyes pour with tears as I think of you and miss you.
Don't worry ~ I'm okay, I just need to feel what I feel to heal!

I love you my sister.... FAITH & HOPE YOU WERE! FAITH & HOPE YOU ARE! My shining lil star!

Sisters Bond

My sweet sweet sisters - 3 hearts that beat as one!

This picture was the last time the three of us were together, just days before Mary was about to be set free, November 11, 2007.



This picture was the last time Lisa saw Mary when she came to visit March 1, 2008.


I love you dear sisters. When you hurt, I hurt. When your happy, I'm happy. When your scared, I'm scared, but I'm strong for you. When your sad, I'm sad but I'm always here for you. I can feel your feelings between the lines. No words are needed. This is the sister bond that will never go away. I am so proud of you my dear sisters! Always have, always will.

I will cherish you forever....