{"id":218,"date":"2016-02-06T13:22:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-06T20:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loverebeccakay.com\/blog\/?p=218"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:32:01","slug":"what-i-had-missed-for-his-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loverebeccakay.com\/blog\/what-i-had-missed-for-his-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"What I had missed for his funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Husband: “What are you doing up? It’s 4 am”<\/p>\n

Me: I can’t find any pictures, I know I have to have some in one of these boxes!<\/p>\n

Husband: Just go to bed, you can look in the morning.<\/p>\n

Me: I can’t sleep, I need to find these pictures. \u00a0What are we going to show at the funeral. \u00a0I can’t even find any baby pictures.<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/a><\/p>\n

This was me 16 years ago this month. \u00a0After scrapping through everyone’s images we \u00a0were able to come up with enough photos of my brother as a young boy to put a small album together; and I found 1 only 1 image of him at the age of 15. \u00a0He had the most piercing beautiful blue eyes with this curly blonde hair. He had been a scrawny kid growing up, but when he turned 15 he just seemed to lose the little boy look and became built. \u00a0He enjoyed hitting his boxing bag and he walked or biked everywhere. \u00a0He worked at Carl’s Jr. and made up his own secret language.<\/p>\n

There is more to his story, but bottom line is that I love him and miss him terribly. \u00a0I missed the chances to include him more, take him out for ice cream. \u00a0I held onto a gift that I bought him in Vegas, making one excuse after another before I got THE call one early morning.<\/p>\n

I lost my future with my brother. \u00a0Not ever a chance to make it up to him. \u00a0Even his obituary photo was maybe 5 years earlier from grade school.<\/p>\n

I try to be better today by offering photos to my family, but even still I miss all that I would like to do and be. \u00a0Thank goodness we have cell phones, but have you ever tried blowing that up for a funeral picture. \u00a0Not the best quality.<\/p>\n

My message to you is to take time to have pictures taken of yourself and of your families. \u00a0I promise you that you will never want to be caught without a picture to put into someone’s obituary. \u00a0And print.. print your pictures from your phone and camera or photographer.. don’t ever let your pictures sit on your computer waiting for the day that it crashes. You may lose your most cherished memories. \u00a0I know I have.<\/p>\n

Capture your memories and exist in photos. \u00a0You’ll be grateful you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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