Phyllis Jeanette Sellers

I have so many memories of you Mom, from back to when I was 3 years old!  I always thought I had the most beautiful mother in the world.  They always say "you have your memories" but it isn't enough.  A piece of me died the day you left us.  I have been so lonely without you to talk to.  Oh how I miss those days, our long talks on the phone.  

I am so glad we were such good friends Mom, not that we didn't have our days....but for the most part you were my best friend until Alzheimer's stole you away.  Alzheimers never stopped me from loving you just the same.  It hurt to watch you slowly fade away.  You were so graceful about it all, no one could tell most of the time that you even had Alzheimer's disease.  You just smiled a lot.  That meant so much to see you always smiling.  You had such a beautiful smile one I will never forget.

I love and miss you Mom, I miss Terry and Nellie, I miss Aryllis and Harold, Aunt Joan and Cousin David.  I miss all of my family that is now in heaven.


Dawn

Once we all got together on every Christmas Eve., to have a nice dinner and make the kids wait to open their presents.  Oh how all of this has changed.  No more babies, just teenagers now...not that we don't love them to death because we do!  But oh how I miss you and Terry, Aryliss and Harold, Curt and Gramma Hazel, Aunt Joan, Gramma Clara, and all those we have lost through the years.  Christmas is becoming more of a reality check than it is Christmas!  Missing you more than you would ever know!

All I can really say is my family mom dawn terry dad and madison have all been my best friends in my life ,I know that may sound funny but it's true. There's not one of them I couldn't tell anything to. My Mom was with me my whole life, 46 years, laugh if you want to but I wouldn't have it any other way , she was the best of the best in many ways...We would go out shopping and to lunch together and laugh until we cried sometimes about the craziest things just as my daughter and I do now, I could only hope that my daughter and I have such a relationship as she and I did...But I  know we will because in my moms own special way she taught me how to love and I try with all my heart to remember every day how lucky I was to have a mother like mine... I LOVE YOU FOR LOVING ME AND MADISON SO MUCH MOM, AND I MISS YOU EVERY DAY YOU ARE AND WERE RELAVENT IN OUR LIVES.XOXOXO

I miss hugging you mom, you were so tiny it made me feel better about being so small.  Every time I hugged you I would tell you I loved you and you always said "Thank you."  I don't care what anyone says you never really left us, we still have you where you will always be nice and warm. Close to us.  We know your spirit lives on and you are with us everyday. 

I will never forget either of you, the mom without Alzheimer's or the mom with Alzheimer's, I loved both of them exactly the same.  I hated the disease and what it did to you, that we lost you so soon.  All I know is how lost I feel without your presence.  Christmas, Easter, any holiday will never be the same without you.  I don't even know if I can do it without you, I will try and I will set a plate at the table for you on Easter in your memory.

The days seem longer without you Mom, I miss you every single day.