June 11, 1974 - April 18, 2014
I have such a heavy heart as I write this post. I learned this weekend that my dear friend Tracey (Rose) Sellars passed away after a brief fight with cancer. It was such a shock to see the obituary with her young and vibrant picture. How could someone so happy, young, loving and caring be gone from this earth? It just doesn't seem real.
I met Tracey when working in a group home where we shared many laughs and where I learned she was afraid of mice. Over the years I got to know her husband Fred and soon after became smitten with her first born, Owen. What a handsome little baby he was, I'm not often fond of babies but Owen was different. He looked like a little old man, wise beyond his years, an old soul in a tiny body. A few years later Emma came along looking so much like her mommy. Tracey's life was full of love and laughter and contentment with her family, they were her world.
I moved away a few years after Emma's birth and as life happens Tracey and I lost touch but there were and still are many moments when she would slip into my thoughts and bring a smile to my face as I remember Christmas baking together and wondering how the peanut butter ended up on the ceiling!!
You will be missed my dear friend Tracey. I am blessed and happy to have known you and even though we were miles apart you and your family have been and will always be in my heart.
Until we meet again.
