Today or I should say yesterday was Christmas Day we knew that it was going to be a hard day as it was the first we spent without Derick, his spirit seemed to be with me for most of the time I was over Shelly's. Shelly and Richard did their very best to try and get us to fit in and to some extent take away some of the hurt. in some small way the succeeded because we had a very pleasant day, their were times when we felt it hard to stay cheerful but those times were made so much easier with the children. Roxanne, Marcus and Mikala had a wonderful day as they spent the morning along the road with Mark. they opened tier presents from him first. Mikala then brought them home to have another opening session with us.

no matter what anyone could say to us we still felt our loss greatly, so in closing God Bless you my Son and we are thinking of you at this time and you most certainly are in our prayers and thoughts. Lots of love from Mum and Dad. Amen