December 16, 2016 at 03:14PM

For three weeks I feel like I've been living one hard thing at a time. Leave daughters little lifeless body in the hospital, check. Plan daughter's funeral, check. Write daughter's obituary, check. The other night we ordered Mary's headstone and I realized afterwards that the list of hard things was shrinking. Which brings relief and sadness. I've been serving her for the past 8 years of my life, and now the physical acts of service that I can do for her dwindles with that list. Yet we are left with something that I don't think will ever be checked off, learning to carry on and live without her physical presence. #drivinglittlemissmary