Day 6/10

Day Six: Five People Who Mean A Lot

Bill: you taught me how to be happy, or at least appear happy, when everything was at it's worst. You also showed me what this happiness does to the people around me. You had this amazing presence that could lift the mood of all the people that surrounded you, and if I could one day make someone half as happy as you made everyone in your life I would feel completely accomplished. You were stolen from us, and when someone like you is lost so unexpectedly, the void that is left behind is indescribable. There isn't a day when you aren't spoken about or thought of, and you know as well as all of us that you are in our hearts forever. Look, you still make the top of my list of important people, I know how much you'd boast about that. I will never be able to tell you how much I miss you.

Dean: for being an acting parent, a best friend, a roommate, a lifesaver and for being the best and most reliable person this world has given me. Thank you for continually taking me in when things got rough, for keeping my secrets and reminding me that everything is going to be okay. I know I've put you through tougher situations that you ever imagined, but you are the very strongest person I know and the only person who has never let me down in my life. You are my hero, continually saving me.

Claire & Olivia: Both together because you are equally important. I tell you over and over that you two are everything to me, but still it doesn't feel like enough, because I know that without either of you in my life, I wouldn't be me. My lifeboats, rescuing me from the hasty water.

Tayla & Chelsey: Again, both of you together as you can't be separated. I didn't realise how much life could be in two small people. You girls make me smile everyday, I wake up to pictures of you in my room and go to bed thinking of you. You two girls mean everything to me, I'm so blessed to have two young, beautiful girls in my life. Thank you for making me so proud every day babies!

Syl: I put you here so you realise that you ARE important to me, something that you fail to realise more times than not. You have shown me what I deserve in life and how I deserve to be treated - even if that isn't with you, and even if I do not ever experience it, I will know in my heart that it was you who showed me what I deserved. You came to me when I needed someone to wake me up and show me what it was in life I should look for. You reiterated my belief that when you truly need something, it will come. You keep the smile on my face, and I can't bear it when you aren't speaking to me. Thank you for being everything I didn't know that I wanted.