About "Mom"

I am a fifty-something mother of three wonderful Irish boys; one is an adult, one is a teenager, and one is in Heaven. I am the grandmother of two beautiful girls and two handsome boys. 

I am a stay at home mom BUT not your typical stay at home mom. I work from home. I am a Professional Event Planner!  I love my job! I celebrate ten years as an independent contractor / event planner with Cameo Management Solutions, Inc. My unique situation affords me the opportunity to manage my own working hours, travel around the gorgeous State of Oregon, and most important of all…I'm available for my family when I need to be. 

My world was changed forever when my youngest son lost his father by sudden death in September 2014. I have been a single mom for 20+ years; however, I became a single mom without the emotional and physical support of the other parent on that dreadful day in September of 2014. I no longer have the co-parent to rely on. He is no longer here to help take care of our child when he is sick or take him to school when I am sick. He is no longer here to celebrate the milestones his son is experiencing, he did not get to see him complete elementary school, middle school, or high school. He watches silently from Heaven as I have been forced to take this journey alone; a single mom who suffers silently at the loss of a great man, a great father, and a great friend.

My world completely crashed when my oldest son died by sudden death on October 20, 2016 and I am changed forever. There is nothing that can ever prepare a parent for that news, that kind of pain, or the way it changes you as a person. First and foremost, my son died, but I still have two wonderful sons and four grandchildren that I love dearly and that keep me alive inside. My love for each of them is as different as each of them are. None can be replaced, none can fill the others place in my heart, and none is any greater than the love of another. I love each of them uniquely, completely, and unconditionally.  They are my world and this is my journey through grief.