Thought I would share what we did today. Most of you know my mom died earlier in 2013.  Today would have been her 88th birthday. My sister, Jeanne invited all of us to go over her house to eat then write messages on balloons to release. After we ate we took the balloons and wrote whatever was in our hearts at the time. We all stood in the middle of her yard. Everyone took ahold of the group of strings then let them all go at the same time. It was such an emotional experience. There were 5 balloons.  Would you believe all 5 balloons stayed in a group and floated out of sight?  What made it so amazing was that there was a slight breeze but NONE of the balloons went in a different direction.  One balloon was leading the four balloons. It is almost unbelievable the way those five balloons stayed together all the way up and never scattered. When the four balloons  caught up with the leading one it was almost like little children being led by a parent through life.   I just couldn't get over it.  The balloons were NOT tied together and there was only one short time halfway up when one balloon was way ahead of the other four balloons but still in a cluster. My mother was a single mother that took us children and left my father in order to bring us up without the alcoholic influence of my father and his alcoholic parents. Life wasn't easy for a woman who had to struggle financially and emotionally to bring up her 4 kids.  We love and miss her so much.

Not one of the  balloons popped or scattered, just remain floating in that cluster until out of sight, beyond the clouds.