Tammy Time

Often, Tammy is behind the camera these days instead of in front of it, even volunteering to capture special events, so I don't have a ton of recent photos of her. This one I took last June. She came out for a couple of days to help me cope mentally when I found out my Dad was dying. It's in Friendly's and afterwards we took the kids to the Imagination Station park for the first time. A few weeks later, she came to my Dad's memorial, taking some photos of the military piece I never thought I'd want but am so glad she did. In September catching lunch at Mimi's after her Grandmother's health took a turn for the worse. Fortunately, she is doing much better now. My brother checking her out at Adam's 2nd birthday. He's been in love for a long time. She joined us for trick-or-treating around the block, taking photos. I snuck one of her when she walked Adam up to his last house. Miss Tammy was in town for Easter so I got my brother to babysit and took her for a lunch on Monday, just us. It's very hard to talk when I'm checking on two kids all the time and some girl time was in order. (Now that the A-team is older, I can actually leave for a few hours and not panic! ha) I hadn't eaten at an Indian restaurant in years so we went to a buffet in Liverpool, like old times.

Later that night she stopped in to use our internet connection, as her parents actually DO NOT have any! She packed up around 10:30pm as she heard us yawning in the other room. Times have changed!

Tammy has a lot going on as she transitions from one part of her life to the next step. Change is hard, harder for me anyhow as I get older anyhow. But she is doing it and doing it well. All I have to do is look back at the past year, as these photos show, to see how much Tammy is there for me and my family. I think she knows we are here for her if she should ever need us. Miss her and hope to see her again soon.