love

I was just reading some family stories from the Cleft Advocate website and came across a mom who had recently lost her 4 year old son. He had a cleft that was linked to a more serious disorder that was life threatening from birth. This morning, as I so often do, I looked at Haven and cried thinking of how indredibly empty my life would be like without her. There are so many unknowns in life--we could be here one day and gone the next with no warning. It's hard to understand why things like that happen to anyone-especially children who have so much left to experience. I've learned that it shouldn't take stories like this make us cherish what we have been given in life, but all too often it does.