After All This We are going To Need Some Magic **Sad Update 8/20**

cindianne320 said:

I am so very sorry.

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Tinker326 said:

I am so very, very sorry for your loss.

Hugs to your entire family and especially you! Please take care of yourself.....

The pictures are a wonderful way to remember your mother. Thanks for sharing special Disney memories.

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Gracefulskinny said:

Death is such a hard thing to go through. I am so sorry for your loss and can understand how hard things can be. My prayers and thoughts for your family.

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annie170 said:

I'm so sorry for your loss. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

It's great you've found close friends here on the DIS. There are a lot of wonderful and helpful people here.

I love old Disney vacation photos. They're just priceless.

You are quite the seamstress! Those outfits are adorable and that fabric is super cute!

Charlotte is a girl after my own heart. Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney Movie also.

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totebagg said:

So very sorry for your family's loss.

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RunnerMommyof4 said:

Awe I am so happy you have found true friends on Dis. Thats been a struggle for me being so far away from friends and family when things happen. I pray at some point we can move closer to them but that means moving away from my parents who chose to move back here, as well. Its a tough decision. I just want the kids to grow up closer to each other (step children live in Colorado) and their cousins and family in California. I am sorry for th loss of your mom! My mom actually both my parents are more like my best friends than parents at this point in life. I still know at almost 40 I am blessed that I still have both my grandmas as well. Sending you hugs and good wishes!

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tiggergal15 said:

Aww..so sorry about your mom and your loss. Her struggles are over but those of us left behind carry on without them and it is real hard sometimes. Hugs to you and your family.

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princessbelle2015 said:

So sorry for your loss

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JoshAndEvsMom said:

Hi JackieMarie! I just found your thread and would love to follow along! We're going to be in WDW at the same time as you too. I've slowly but surely been sniffing out fellow NYE crazies!

I'm so sorry for your loss. I lost my dad to cancer in 2011; his funeral was 2 weeks before our first family trip to WDW. Cancer sucks!!

Your family is totes adorbs! And wow, you have such an awesome talent for sewing! Very impressive!

So glad you have this amazing trip to look forward to and so many new memories to make with your two beautiful girls!

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Dugette said:

Thinking of you and your family and sending good wishes your way. I can't imagine how difficult this time is for you. What a year it has been - you absolutely will need the magic of your trip to look forward to. I'm so glad that Cecilia came out of the year, though, so you have happy memories of this time also. I hope that Charlotte is doing okay with everything.

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Jackiemarie21 said:

So, after my last update, the world turned upside down and things have been beyond crazy. The dust is just now starting to settle a little (just a little). My mom lost her battle to cancer on Aug. 9 She was 62, too young to go! It was peaceful and painless. She went into a coma late Friday night and by Sunday morning she was gone. There is a part of me that still really can't believe this is real. I still feel so numb to it all. The funeral and everything was kind of like watching someone else go through it all, if that makes any sense? After her funeral my brother sister in law and their dog stayed in town for a few days and we spent some time together. I am still trying to sort through everything I have been through in the last year. A year ago, I was still shopping with mom and talking to her nightly on the phone. I had no idea a year ago Cecilia would be coming. I have really been through a lot in a very short time! Some amazing, some awful, but lots of changes.

The one thing you find out when you go through hard times, is just how many people care for you. About three years ago I joined this board. I loved reading trip reports and decided since I was planning a trip I would start a PTR. That decision in some ways was a big one. Over the course of the first year I was on here I "met" lots of new and neat people, but three ladies who live in the same region as I do started chatting with me and we eventually started having STL dismeets. Those ladies have become my pretty good friends. They also came to my moms wake and I am so amazed with their support. I am so happy I decided to join this board and so happy I decided to go on those dismeets! I'm a lucky girl to have such good friends!

So to close out this very sad update, I'm going to include some vintage pics of my family in Disney in 1991 and 1993:

Me, my brother and my mom in MGM in May 1991. This was the first day of my first trip!

My mom and dad in the MK May 1993

A very young me, my brother and mom in EPCOT May 1993
Gotta love those 90's fashions! Too bad they didn't have photopass then, maybe we could have gotten a photo together.
Anyway, I'll be back soon with some trip stuff. I just have to get all this other stuff straight in my head!

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