One day at a time

As you can tell from his obituary one of Jeff's main loves was music. Music is something that is well rooted in my family. We grew up listening to my grandpa play guitar in a Cajun band and many of us have followed his example and picked up a guitar and learned to play. We joke all the time about starting a family band. :) Jeff by far was probably they most talented. I can play but when i want to learn a song I have to have the music in front of me and break it all down and practice things over and over before i can finally get it. And then I can only remember it if i play it all the time. Jeff could hear a song once and play it for you. It could be something that he heard once, along time ago, and he could nail every note. He had a genuine gift for music. It was amazing and something that i will miss the most about him. To honor his love of music my mom and her siblings had his guitar displayed in this BEAUTIFUL arrangement that was on his casket. It was perfect and i know Jeff would have LOVED it!!!

Sunday some of Jeff's closest friends went to the cemetery and had a little jam session in honor of him.

My cousin Judson playing a little blues for uncle Jeff. Judson looks a lot like Jeff and sometimes i have to do a double take. I still can't really wrap my head around the fact that he's gone. :(


*Hailey went back to school today and lasted all day. I think its good for her to be back. Keeps her busy and her mind on other things. She's been sleeping with Jeff's old pajama pants and some pics of him. She continues to amaze me with the grace she is handling this all with. I on the other hand haven't been sleeping well. I manage to fall asleep fine it's staying asleep that is my problem. Hopefully that will get better soon.

For all of you out there that have children that are picky eaters you will understand my excitement about this. Tonight we had buttery garlic shrimp over rice with corn and broccoli...

And Hailey...

ATE IT!!!!!!!!!

Granted she picked every piece of rice off her shrimp before eating it because...oh, I don't know the sun and the moon might explode if she eats them together...but, she ATE IT!! Small victories people small victories!!