Thank you all for all the kind comments about April. The world was a much better place with her in it and she will be very sadly missed.
April off the boards was the very same as she was on the groups....thoughtful, funny, firendly to everyone. She always took people for what they were and drew no distinctions between them no matter their politics, wealth, age or physical/mental status. Many of you would be surprised to know of regular, friendly correspondence she carried out with members both here and on CE11. They came from both the extreme right and the extreme left. Rather than looking away or trying to skirt them, she always had a few coins for the homeless on the street and, more often than not, would stop and chat with them.
Our building was formerly a seniors residence and still has many elderly and very elderly residents. She was a favorite of all of them because she really cared about them. Ninety year old Elmer, next door to us, would stand on the sidewalk below our balcony and do little dances to get her attention. Old Mary, pretty much an agoraphobic who seldom leaves her apartment, loved April's visits and even asked if April would take her to the pub across the street to have some chicken wings. Old Fred, down the hall, was totally in love with her and we were guaranteed a nice salmon or piece of halibut whenever he went fishing. Kaz, the old gardener, was her favorite model for pictures and he was always after her to come and take more. Even the building managers loved her and yesterday they suggested organizing a little memorium tea in one of the common rooms for her.
Her best friend, here in B.C., was Cindy who suffers from bi-polar disorder and April stuck by her through all her hospitalizations. One thing I am so pleased with is that, just this past Saturday, they had a girl's night out and went for dinner and to a Heart concert. They had a blast and she was so happy (and a little tipsy) when she got home. Saturday was also a snow day here, which delighted her.
In fact, her last two days were really good. Sunday, we just stayed home for the morning working on her photography facebook group and I made her one of our famous breakfasts. In the afternoon she stayed home and puttered while I took the dogs out and then we made a wonderful roast beef supper. We climbed into bed early and she got into her favorite postion with me leaning against the headboard and her beween my legs leaning on my belly while I held her and provided headrubs while we watched a bit of tv. She truly loved when we did that (which was practically every night) and especially loved when we fell asleep in that position.
Monday morning we were up early and we had fun playing on her group again. When it was time for me to go to work I got in the shower and she made my breakfast (she got it done and on the table too). That's when God decided to take her. I miss her so much.
You guys, on this group, did provide us with one of the happiest days of our lives, though when you did the cyber wedding for us. You have no idea how deeply grateful we are for that. In honour of you and April here is a picture of us on that day.