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Saturday, June 29, 2013

June 28, 2013


Oh how I am done with this day...I try so hard David, to not let the pain get the best of me.  It's harder than you would think.  When I say I am broken that doesn't really come close to describing what I am feeling.  I simply cannot believe that you are gone, let alone gone forever.  That is something I have yet to come to terms with.  This is no not what I expected this year to be like for us...not even close.  Please send me strength love, I am really struggling.  xoxo


Happy three year anniversary baby...

June 27, 2013

Time for me to call it a day my lover...I think I have cried enough for a lifetime these past many weeks.  my brain doesn't work like it should and my eyes feel they are full of sand.  sleep doesn't come natural anymore but staying up is pointless.

My life is wrong now, nothing feels good, nothing seems important.  Going through the motions of living is getting heavy.  I need your help babe, I need you to show me the way...I need you back.


Eve's Page

I heard you laugh today, saw you smile...and there was light in your eyes.  I don't understand what has happened here, nothing makes any sense.  I'm so sorry you are gone.  My mind has been on a rewind for days and days and I'm just so tired.  I need you to help me Evelyn, I need you to tell me yo are okay.

What Have I Learned?

Life, like a speeding race car, can stop on a dime.

Like the sun can burn your skin...so too can witnessing horror.

Your eyes really are the windows to your soul,  and lasting impressions are stored there.

A broken heart actually does hurt, it isn't just a saying used too often by teenage girls.

The pain will not kill you, and you do not die, no matter how bad you may wish you would.

Your eyes do not fall out from crying, as many a mom would have her crying child believe.

Time does not heal all wounds, it merely hides it under a new layer of skin.

In times of need, true friends will have your back...and your front and your right and your left, and they will pick you up and carry you to wherever it is you need to be.

From great sadness does come great joy...Joy in the strengthening of friendships, joy in some of the little things in life,  joy in finding new friendships.  And even joy can be found in the knowledge that the family you chose has seen deep inside of you, a place that even you yourself had never seen...and you all walked there together.

The treasures they leave behind are real and right there waiting for you...you only need to open your eyes and see.

That 1 out of 3 were not meant to die in the ocean that day.

I am a treasure they left behind.


Friday, June 28, 2013

A Letter From Beyond...

To the living, I am gone.

To the sorrowful, I will never return.


To the angry, I was cheated.


But to the happy, I am at peace.


And to the faithful, I have never left.


I cannot speak, but I can listen.


I cannot be seen, but I can be heard.


So as you stand upon a shore gazing at a beautiful sea,


As you look upon a flower and admire its simplicity,


Remember me.  Remember me in your heart,


your thoughts and your memories,


Of the times we loved, of the times we cried,


The times we fought, the times we laughed.


For if you always think of me, I will never be gone.


But with you always deep inside your heart.



1,095 days

One thousand ninety five days...that is how long we have been married. 

 Three years today baby, June 28th,  Happy Anniversary my love.

As I woke up this morning I was struck by how heavy I felt lying in our bed, it was as though I had the weight of the world on top of me.  I don't usually feel that when I wake up, but today I did...  and so I just stayed where I was for a bit.  My usual, open eyes, climb out did not happen.

It occurred to me that peace and love and joy and happiness are like the bubbles in a glass of champagne, they fill you with a feeling of lightness that tickles your nose...when those things are gone all that is left is heaviness and a feeling that there just isn't as much air to breathe as there used to be.  It's very strange indeed.

I loved being married to you my David, I loved what we were building and how hard we were working to make it all come together for us.  There were challenges, but we worked  at them and I am so very proud of us for how we were able to always talk with each other, never fighting, never hurting...only respecting and loving.  Oh there were challenges, but we were figuring them out together...

Now you are gone and my heart is broken, my future is broken, our kids are broken, my life is broken and I have no idea how to put everything, and everyone back together.  We all are going through the motions of living, one step at a time, but nothing is the same.  And I'm scared. 

I say Happy Anniversary to you today my David because you took a chance, you 'went for it', and you showed me a lightness in a 'tickle your nose' kind of way was possible.  I love you so very deeply and I will cherish our marriage always, you are my husband and I am your wife even when ...death do us part.

Thursday, June 27, 2013

June 26, 2013

Goodnight love.  If you could knock me out so I can get some sleep I would appreciate it.  I love you so much.  xoxo

June 25, 2013

Good morning David...finally slept for a couple hours, eventually.  The heat has been incredible...Nathan stopped in for a few minutes on his way back home, he looks great, it has been a while since I'd seen him.

Talked with my folks, everyone is anxiously awaiting our arrival...and they can't wait to see Josh.  it will be good for him to get out of his room and out of his laptop.  It will be a long separation from his Mom though, so I hope he will be okay.

I don't feel well inside babe...having a hard time with the visions again...having a hard time with you being gone...having a hard time over Evelyn...I just don't feel like doing this anymore.

This day is done, I can go no further.  I love you and miss you too damn much.

June 24, 2013

Hi my love...hard time falling asleep, which seems to be the norm these days.  Be near me babe, I need you bad.

June 23, 2013

It is morning once again...I'm missing you heavy, and loving you deep.

Rough, rough, rough day baby...it was a beautiful day, beautiful scenery, beautiful people but a very difficult occasion.  I am not okay, and I will not be okay anytime soon.  None of this is okay...I am not okay.

I love love love you


Eve's Page

Oh my sweet sister, you are so very missed...so very loved.  I know it was you that soaked Kate and I today...very funny my friend.  Perfect timing too.  All of it was just perfect.

June 22, 2013

Tomorrow is gonna be a tough day love...I hope that you and Evelyn will be watching over the occasion...it is the 'release ceremony' for Eve's ashes.  Once again I will drive out there and once again neither of you will be there, but we will be celebrating and happy and gathering with friends.  I love you my David, I love you so much.  Watch over us all tomorrow...it is going to be a tough day.




Eve's Page

48 days since we were on that rock, talking, laughing, sharing secrets...48 days since I heard you laugh...48 days.  Evelyn, we will be there tomorrow and we will celebrate you.  xoxo

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

The Proposal

I'm remembering the day you proposed to me, standing at the ocean with our kids all running around us.

Gillian and Nathan freely walking off to explore but Joshua content to play in the surf with me.  I remember you kept shooing him away and me saying 'it's okay for him to hang with us, we're having fun.'  finally you pulled him aside and next thing I know he is heading off to find the others...

You came to me at the waters edge then and held me by my shoulders, you looked me in the eyes and said "do you trust me Kristen?"...I looked to the right, at the surf, and said "David Machado, if you throw me in I'm taking you with me".  I looked back into your face and you were smiling at me but your face was so serious...you asked me again..."Do you trust me?"  Nervously I said "Yes babe, I trust you with my life and with my kids lives...why?  you are making me nervous."  You turned me to look at our 3 kids and said "look at them, look at how happy they are, they all love each other so much".  Then you turned me back to face you and said...

"I have loved you since I was 17 and I have been trying to find you again for almost that long.  Our paths never crossed in all these years, but as you once told me, I know that we had met as kids so our hearts would be able to recognize and find each other again when it was our time.  Now that I have found you, I never want to lose you again...will you be my wife...will you marry me?"

In my head was a million things...all my fears and all my hopes and dreams swimming around together.  Then I was thinking 'good thing we had the conversation of how I never wanted to get married!'...and then I looked at your beautiful, sweet face and I knew right then and there..."Of course I will marry you baby".    And the rest is history...

I miss you my love and I thank God every day that I was your wife.



Tuesday, June 25, 2013

The Bright White Tunnel...

She is being led by the arms, someone on each side holding her up.  There is a lot of buzz going on around her, people are looking directly into her face as they pass...she notices that the look at first is one of general recognition, but then the slightest shift occurs...she sees it and she wonders if they know.   The chin lowers, the eyes lower and the head tilts ever so slightly to the right...and she wonders if they know who she is.

The lights are so bright and the halls so white...the combination of the two make her feel like she is floating through a tunnel, the hands on each arm still holding her up...guiding.  Voices, she hears voices but they are not clear.  Like when you were a kid and would sit on the bottom of a pool...you could hear voices and see images but nothing was clear...not the voices...not the images.

Suddenly she is looking at a wooden door and realizes she is no longer moving.  The one who owns the hand on her right is talking but she doesn't know what he is saying,  maybe if she looks at him in the face the words will be more clear but all she sees is his eyes.  His eyes are full of sadness and sorrow...it is pouring out of his eyes and she wants to tell him it will be okay...he will be okay.  She doesn't know why he is hurting, but his eyes tell her that he is and she feels sorry for him.  No time to dwell on it though for she feels these hands begin to guide her onward once again.

As the door opens, her body tenses, her heart begins to beat too loud and too fast and she knows that behind this door is her greatest nightmare...she should not be here, she wants to run but the hands are holding her and she knows she has been given a job to do.  Ever the one to please...she will do her task to the best of her ability and then she will be permitted to leave, so she raises her eyes and blinks...She is in a small room, it is all white and stainless steel...the walls are lined with machines and in the middle is a bed draped in a white sheet...the sheet is hiding a secret.  She knows that under that sheet is the answer to why she is here, why the looks, why the sadness in the mans eyes and she knows this is her job..she has been given the task of answering the riddle of what is under that sheet.  And suddenly the hands let her go...she is standing on her own and she is moving to the side of that bed and everyone in that room is watching her and wondering if she will get this right.  A woman to her left pulls the sheet half way down the bed.  It is time, there is only patience here, but she knows they are waiting for her to do her job...

So...I raise my eyes and I take a good long look and I utter the words everyone is waiting to hear... 'that is him, that is my husband'...and I say those words because there on that bed is the man of my dreams, the teenage love of my life all grown up now.  It is my David, but it is not.  I see a neck brace thing and a tube in his mouth, and his open eyes are blood red, there is vomit all in his sideburns and around his ears and instantly I am furious.  What the hell is wrong with these people?  Why would they not clean him up a little, how could they want that to be the image I see.    And then I am thinking 'no, it is fine because this is all just some sick twisted joke, someone is really fucking with me and none of this is real'...so I  step forward and hold my husbands beautiful hand and rub his arm, he is freezing and I have blood on my hands, I tell the nurse he is bleeding and she just looks at me with that slightly lowered 'look' I had seen earlier.  I look closer and realize that my David is cut and bruised all over, and those blood red eyes...I have to get out of there, I have to run away.  I lay his hand down, tell him one last 'I Love You' and I walk out of that room.  But my job is not done...I have only finished half of my task...

It must be something in that tunnel because I am back to sitting on the bottom of the pool, the hands are back to guiding me towards my next task, just a few short steps away, the next room actually and we do it all again.  The bed, the nurse, the sheet hiding the secret to this final riddle.  This room is large, the bed is at the other side of the room and I must make a huge effort to walk over to it.  It is in this room that I am aware of my friend Kate by my side, she has been the hand on my left arm all along.  Together we walk to the bed and there under that last sheet is our beautiful friend Evelyn...but not.  We see what we saw with David...all of it, and it is very surreal.  I hold Eve's foot and rub her leg...I know Kate is saying something, but what I have no idea.  Without even knowing I am speaking I hear my voice say 'I love you Evelyn, thank you for what you did'.  And I know in that moment that my job here is done, I have answered correctly and now I must go back to that rock and wait for my husband and my friend to return to me.

She is being led by the arms, someone on each side holding her up.  There is a lot of buzz going on around her, people are looking directly into her face as they pass...she notices that the look at first is one of general recognition, but then the slightest shift occurs...she sees it and she wonders if they know.   The chin lowers, the eyes lower and the head tilts ever so slightly to the right...and she wonders if they know who she is.

Monday, June 24, 2013

A Watery Farewell...

Well it is done, the moment that we have anticipated for weeks now...the watery farewell of our soul sister Evelyn.

It had been 49 days since I walked the streets of Rocky Neck with Evelyn and my David,  49  days since we sat on the deck of Sailor Stan's and toasted the day, toasted us, toasted our lives and toasted our loves.  49 days since we felt joy together, since we laughed from deep down in our guts, since we walked arm in arm through these streets because to not would have felt like being oceans apart.  49 days since we shared secrets, made plans and toasted our lives.  

This day is worlds away from what we had in mind on that day.  This day and the 48 before it wasn't even in the ballpark of what we had been thinking on that beautiful, sunny, warm spring day of May 5th 2013.   We could not have dreamed this day, on that day, for our future...but here we are.  

This day 49 days later, a new group of us walked the streets of Rocky Neck Art Colony, a parade if you will on this beautiful, sunny, hot summer day of June 23rd 2013, a parade of celebrants, friends, family, mourners on a journey to the waters edge for a final farewell to a woman that had such a giant impact in each and every one of our lives.  Some spoke, some laughed and some, like myself, walked alone with our thoughts as we made our way through this place of beauty.  All of this was excruciatingly hard for me, to keep it together has become my new skill, and I have just about perfected the art of keeping myself in check.  

It has been 49 days since I walked these streets with my friend Evelyn and my cherished husband, it has been 49 days since I watched them both drown in these waters, it has been 49 days since my hopes, my dreams, and my heart were taken out to sea leaving me behind, to make my way alone to this watery farewell...

This day was simply beautiful.


A wondrous place to lay your head...



Saturday, June 22, 2013

48 days

Today is 48 days.

48 days since we woke up together...

48 days since I smelled your scent that is so uniquely you...

48 days since I touched your face...

48 days since I kissed your beautiful mouth...

48 days since I looked in your eyes...

48 days since I held your hand...

48 days since you put your arms around me...

48 days since I heard you say my name...

48 days since I heard you tell me 'I love you'...

48 days since I heard you laugh...

48 days since I heard you sing...

48 days since I cooked for you...

48 days since we made a toast together...

48 days since I heard you yell for help...

48 days since I watched you take your last breath...

48 days since my heart was ripped from my body...

48 days since I felt joy...

48 days since a smile reached my eyes and a laugh reached my heart...

48 days since I lost the love of my life...

48 days since I lost a beautiful friend...

48 days since I lost me.

Friday, June 21, 2013

June 21, 2013

Morning my love.  Another night of crappy sleep, I'm beginning to think this is another new normal for me...oh well.  Be near me today lover, I'm feeling your loss hard these days.  xoxo

Joshy said he couldn't come over this weekend...never said why though.  I had been contemplating telling him maybe to wait because he would have had to leave early anyway.  I will be leaving here early on Sunday morning to head back out to Rocky Neck once again...you see, Evelyn's family is planning a release ceremony for Eve's ashes.  I have gone round and round today about actually going, I want to, I'm just not sure I will hold up too well.  It will be a very surreal experience for sure.

Very lonely for you David.  My life has changed so drastically and so fast that I am unable to keep up.  I have 'managed' things, but I have not accepted or come to terms with this as forever.  I cry for you and I mourn for you every second of every minute of every hour of every day.  I am never going to get over this.  I'm done for today.






Eve's Page

Today is the first day of summer girlfriend...you were sooo looking forward to this season.  I hope in your new life everyday is as perfect as you could wish tit to be.  Love you Eve

June 20, 2013

Another day is here babe and I will spend it wrestling with the DMV...can't wait.  I believe this will be the last thing on the list to 'wrap up'...all the ends that were left loose, all the things to think about, all the things to change...I believe I have done it all.  Talk about an ordeal on top of an ordeal.  I hope you are happy with all that I have done, I hope you are proud of me,  and most of all I hope you know how very very much I love you.  I would do anything for you always.  xoxo


Photo: Off to sleep

Well my love...it is time for me to call it a day...I've been in a bad spot for hours and I need to end it on a high note.  HA  

I've just had the most wondrous of conversations with the most wondrous of people.  I get down on my knees and thank God for the.  You are gone and I am broken, but with them I just may become whole again.

Goodnight my most beautiful husband...tomorrow is another day.

June 19, 2013

It's morning again lover...another day ahead of me and another left behind.  Heard from GiGi last night, of course she was having the time of her life...

the ship was indescribable, the snorkeling with parrot fish and sea turtles, the food, her cabin with the balcony...I couldn't get a work in edgewise.  hehe

Be with her baby and keep them safe please, okay Daddy?  

Love you David - Me

June 18, 2013

Morning my handsome man...I love you.

Had a nice day today with Kathy babe...nice distraction from the job of moving forward...which I am not enjoying by the way, lol.  I love and miss you David.  Tomorrow is another day.  Goodnight.



Eve's Page

I don't think I will ever understand why you are gone...I shame my head every day. 

 Miss you Eve

June 17, 2013

6 weeks. 

I slept...but fitfully, I slept...but alone, I slept...but with pain in my heart and a tear in my eye.  

I'm awake now...fitfully, alone, and with pain in my heart and tears in my eyes.  I don't even know where the tears come from anymore babe, I would think I'd be all tapped out.  It's worse now, all of it, not better...I am not getting better, I'm getting worse.  I don't know where you and Eve are and I can't stop reliving those horrible, frantic minutes.  Minutes...just minutes that changed everything.  I will never understand, and I will never get over this.  I miss you both so much and I want you back...but I know that I can't have you .  DAMN

I love you with all my whole heart baby, always and forever.  Almost time to get back in that damn bed...ugh.  I miss reaching over and holding your hand while I fall asleep, I miss everything about you.  God how I miss you.  tomorrow is another day...until then, goodnight.




Eve's Page

I love you Evelyn.

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to the love of my life...all your kids loved you so very much David.  It won't be the same, but with your help I will do the best job that I can for them now.  I love you baby.

I said to Nate today...My arms are around you today my sweet boy.  Your Dad worshiped you.  Know he is with you forever in your memories and your heart.  I love you.

and I said to Josh today...Today is a tough day, I know.  Remember always that your Dad simply adored you Josh.  You held a very special place in his heart as the child most like him and he was so proud of that.  he will be with you always in your heart and looking back at you from the mirror.  I love you my sweet boy.

and I say to you today...I miss you my husband, my heart is broken.  Goodnight...

June 15, 2013

Morning my David...restless night without you again...very rough night actually, cried myself to sleep.  This just can't be real, this just can't be my life now...my life is with you and you aren't here.  How am I supposed to do this without you, this isn't what we planned, this isn't what we talked about...I'm not supposed to be without you.  This isn't what I want dammit.  God this isn't what i want.  I want you.


Hi again...heard from Gigi...I wasn't home, but she left a message...she was getting on the ship and said she couldn't call until the ship comes back to the U.S.  UGH.  Please travel with her babe...I need her home safe.
We had a good time at Kate's today...maybe you heard us laughing.  I love you David, I'm not doing too well here.  Watch over us best you can. Goodnight.   xoxo




Eve's Page

Where are you sister?  I miss you

June 14, 2013

Good morning baby.  Laid in bed most of the night listening to the rain...sleep was slow to come.  My  brain just wouldn't stop.  Gillian is in the air right now, headed for sunny FLA and the adventure of a lifetime.  Keep an eye on her would you?  xoxo

Hi lover...GiGi called from the balcony of her hotel in Ft. Lauderdale that looked out over the beach and the ocean...she was so giddy I could hardly understand her.  This is so bittersweet, not having you here to share the moments with.  Feeling very sad.

June 13, 2013

Morning handsome...today is a big day in our house...it's GiGi's last day of 10th grade, can you believe it?  It's unbelievable to me.  Tomorrow she flies to Florida and the next day she boards the ship for the Caribbean for 7 days.  The house is going to be very quiet.  She's not doing too well babe, she needs her Dad back...the only one she has ever known.  she cries for you all the time, we both do.  I hope you will watch over her on the ship...keep her safe please.  I love you David.  xoxo

Well Gilly is gone babe...this was supposed to be our time together, just us.  Anyway, talked with Dad just now...he had a dream about you last night...a difficult one.  Anyway...I'm not doing too good without you and think I will call it a night.  I love you so very much my David.  Please be near me, I need to have you near me.  xoxo


Eve's Page

Thinking about you this morning...I'm very sad and I miss you Evelyn.  Feeling very messed up.  Goodnight sweet Evelyn.

June 12, 2013

38 days

I still can't comprehend what has happened here.  When I look at your picture I am completely at a loss...one minute you were standing there and the next you were gone forever.  I am so very heartbroken David.  I hope you know how much I love you.  

Goodnight love


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June 11, 2013

Morning my David.  It's raining again today...I miss you so much and I need you to be near me love.  I miss your face and your voice and your scent, oh my God how I miss you.

You sir are the true love of my life.  The fact that you are not sitting next to me any longer is something I'm not sure I can come to grips with.  I miss you in a painful way and all I want to do is lay my cheek on yours and inhale.  Every time you shaved you came and laid your cheek on mine and I miss that so much.  I miss you my David...I am never going to be okay with this.  But fir tonight I am done, I can't think for another minute and I can't cry one more tear.  I love you baby, I hope you know just how much.  Be near me love...I miss you next to me when we sleep.  xoxo



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June 10, 2013

Good morning lover...It seemed for a time that the visions had shifted a little further from my eyesight, but the past few days they have moved right back to the front.  Eyes open, eyes closed...it makes no difference.  They just won't quit.

Ah well...such is life now.  It was great having Josh here babe...did you watch over him?  The kids were all together most of the time, but Sunday was kind of dull for him.  You need to reach down and touch him, send him strength and love.  He needs his Dad.  I need his Dad too.  D you know hum much I love you?  I hope that you do.

I think I have hit a wall babe, I knew I would.  As broken as I have felt, it still has seemed similar to me being away from you in AT.  The overwhelming 'I can't breathe' feeling is back and I'm so excruciatingly lonely for you.  Moving about our home without you, sitting on the couch without you...eating alone, sleeping in our bed without you...it is all just too much for me to handle.  I cry so much and don't want to play this stupid game any more.  I want you back David, I want you back now...please.



Eve's Page

Hi there sister.

June 9, 2013

Hi my baby...I'm sitting here on our bed with Jewels...Josh is in the living room on his laptop...GiGi is over Britt's house and I'm thinking way too much.  I'm thinking that I go through all the motions of an ordinary day...I hear my voice, I know I'm moving about, but I'm not really there.  I feel trapped somewhere between where you are and where I should be.  It is a very strange feeling.  I love you and I miss you.

June 8, 2013

Hello my lover...I missed writing to you this morning.  It's been a very difficult weekend...Josh being here again is perfect, and at the same time it makes your absence that much more profound.  We made tacos for dinner and after preparing all the components...lettuce, cheese etc. GiGi and I just burst out crying...you are so desperately missed and so desperately loved that we just can't seem to get through the smallest thing without getting deeply sad.  I'm really struggling with this being real...I just can not wrap my brain around this as my new reality.  The pain is all consuming...I feel it begin in my core and radiate out to my skin...it is unlike anything I have ever felt in my life.  I love you my David...I love you very  very much.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

June 7, 2013

Good morning handsome.  Your Joshua...our Joshua is coming!  I am going to get him this afternoon and he will be here for the weekend like normal.  I'm sorry it has taken me so long but it was the best I could do.  I'm excited!  Now I must buy food...boys like to eat.  hehe  

Be with us this weekend, give us strength and love and laughter.  I miss you David, I hope you know and can see just how much.  Be peaceful lover.  xoxo

In the middle of the grocery store, among tons of people, and suddenly an intense sense of extreme loneliness washed over me.  These moments of remembering my husband is never coming back is enough to bring me to me knees.  I miss my David.

Joshua is here lover...it's been a month...I hoped for sooner but couldn't do it.  I hope you can see and hear us, the kids sound like old times.  I have retreated to our room, I'm feeling very sad and the tears are standing just on the edge of falling.  God how I miss you...it's the most incredible thing...sometimes I'm just not sure I will make it...all I want is you.  

Goodnight my sweetest of men.  I simply adore you and feel very lost without you.  Until tomorrow...



Eve's Page

Hi Evelyn...right about now you would be sending me an inbox with word'ms that would be pertinent to now...I need your help.  I am really struggling with all of this...I am just so lost.  I want to lay down and give up the fight, it's just too hard, trying is too hard.  I'm tired...I'm tired of being okay for everyone else.  I'm not okay, I'm not okay at all.  I am broken and in screaming pain.  Help me get through this my friend, help me find the way.  I'm so very for everything, I'm so very sorry you died.  God, I am so so very sorry.

June 6, 2013

Hello my love...I slept well, finally, and woke around 6.  My first thought each day is of you and that once again I have to face it without you, it makes me shake my head...maybe to dislodge that horrible thought and make way for the next one...who knows.  I have a plan today...I am going to come to that rock.  I have flip flopped back and forth on how to go about this...but in the end I have to do this on my own.  I hope I will find you there...you and Evelyn.  Watch out for me and protect me and keep me safe.  I will see you soon.

I did it babe (and Evelyn)...I came to the rock!  I walked the walk we took that day, each and every step.  I sat with EJ for a bit, I went in the place we had breakfast, I went to Eve's house, which now belongs to another lucky soul...and I met a new friend...Brenda Malloy, she insisted on walking with me and so I did have company.  I did great babe, hardly cried at all and I threw a pink rose for Eve and  red one for you my handsome!  Nothing was the same and I did not find you there, not Eve either, and that is okay.  There was no white, there was no thundering surf and there was no violent wind, EVERYTHING was different and that is good too.  I did it, I did it, I did it!  Phew...and now I am toasting myself with a martini...HA.  I love, adore, cherish, miss and love you some more.  -  Me

June 5, 2013

Good morning lover.  Today is one month, yet for me it is still a month ago...I know time has passed, but not for me.  I am still there on that rock, I still see you and I still hear you...I smell the sea and I hear my screams.  I have spent all this time making phone calls, going through files, having meetings, and signing papers.  I have told my story...your story over and over and over yet I have not really been present, I am on that rock with the crashing waves and my breaking heart, I have been sitting and waiting for you to return.  I cannot move, I cannot leave, I cannot believe, I cannot accept...I just cannot move.  I will always be exactly where you need me to be my sweet sweet man.  I will always be yours.  I love you so very much my David.  I pray you are at peace.  Until you find me again...forever and always - me

I made it through most of today with my head held high babe, but now I am done.  Around 4pm the dark crept in and turned this day around...I am now a mess.  I miss my boyfriend so very much it is eating me alive.  I just don't understand this life of mine, I just don't understand that this is how it is to be.  I'm so so in love with you yet I am without you, it makes no sense to me.  It's all just a big giant mess.  The feeling in me to find you is frantic and desperate, and so helpless.  I don't think I will ever be the same again...when you left you took me with you.  Good night my beautiful man...



Eve's Page

My dear sweet beautiful friend and sister.  One month, yet not.  I have no words really, but my heart is with you always.  Days have passed by, but I am still in that moment, on that rock, and I cannot leave.  You mean so much to so many and to me as well.  The connection now, the bond we have now is so much deeper as you now have my husband, you left here with my David, I wish to believe you held hands and comforted each other on the way to your new life and I wish to believe you are finally at peace from all that haunted you.  I love you sweet girl and I miss your loving and kind words.  One month, yet not.  Huh...it's all just too much. 

June 4, 2013

Morning love...managed to sleep pretty good last night.  Still spent the morning crying though...I would figure at this point I would be all dried up.  hehe  I'm on my way out to stand at a copy machine for a while, then rewarding myself with some TJMaxx therapy.  I haven't been in there since last time with you, one of our favorite things to do together.  Here's to hoping I don't make a fool of myself...be with me babe.  i love you and I miss you painfully.

Okay, I'm really done with this now...I would like to be gently woken up for a redo because I'm getting ready to lay out flat on the floor and pitch a really big fit.  I absolutely need you back now...crap.

June 3, 2013

In my world time has stopped, in my world it is the 5th of May and my life just stopped.  Obviously I understand that the moment I live in was 4 weeks ago, but that is just it...that is where I live, I am there on the rocks where I watched my life pass before my eyes.  I have not moved from that spot...time has not moved me.  I don't know what will, I don't know what will make time start back up for me.  I do things, I'm doing everything, I'm with our friends, I love them and I laugh with them and I cry with them...maybe it is each one of those moments that will make time begin again for me.  David Machado dammit, what the hell has happened here...what the hell has happened?  God I'm so in love with you, It's all just too much.  


Eve's Page

I'm still with you Evelyn, I have not left you.  I'm still standing right there with you.  Love and Miss

June 2, 2013

Hello my love...spent the morning reading, cried and now time to get my ass in gear.  Kateness (Kate + cuteness = kateness) is dragging me to her house so we can swim, relax on the beach and kayak...the nerve of her!!!  Watch us babe...this should be funny.  I tried to hear your voice today on your cell phone, which I hadn't thought to do...but the company already disconnected the account.  Probably for the best, I would have lost it...I'm hanging on by a tenuous thread as it is.  I love  you my David.

OK...now listen...I know it was you...I know it was you that tipped me over in the kayak.  Just as I was starting to head to the 'dark side' thinking about the 'water' I suddenly end up down side up in it.  Yes it was funny, ok, wicked funny and yes it lightened the mood and yes, I thank you lover...you made me laugh at myself and I was able to continue on with my afternoon but not before you tipped me for a second time.  hehe I love you my handsome, beautiful, amazing, wonderful husband.  I love love love you so very much David.  Good night baby.

 Eve's Page

Did you see us?  Were you laughing?  I'm sure you were...we had a good day today, Kate and me.  Good night sister.  Hug my David for me please.  I heard your voice today my sister...your sweet sweet voice, can't believe I didn't think to try already.  God how you are missed Evelyn, I look at the pictures over and over and over and I just shake my head for the HUGE shame of it all.  I am a very lost soul these days.  I hope you are well, and I hope you are peaceful.  xoxo

The one

There is something to be said for a person who has spent most of his life wondering about you and looking for you.  That kind of connection,  that bond, that attraction, that love,  is something that just doesn't come around every day.

I had that...I had that person, I had that person who wondered and searched and loved me, even before he found me for a second time.  The boy I once knew who became the man I grew to know better than myself,  He loved me, he cherished me, he adored me. It is not something that I take lightly.  This man, whom I dated at 16, spent the next 27 years of his life trying to find out about me...the connection we made as kids grew with him over the years and at the end of the day it was always me that he wanted.  I had that...I had that person, until I didn't.

He was my one, and now he is gone.

Saturday, June 15, 2013

May 31, 2013

Good morning sunshine...another day is upon us.  Help me be strong today lover, I need you near me.  So you and Evelyn are just gonna have to get off the damn paddle boards and pay attention to ME!!!



I have the curtains closed to help keep the heat out...
I keep hearing a tapping on the window and this is
what I found it to be...


 Photo: I have the curtains closed to help keep the heat out...I keep hearing a tapping on the window and this is what I found it to be...



I'm lost without you baby...calling it a day.  Thank you for checking in on me today...goodnight. 

May 30, 2013

GOD I hope this is how it is...


Photo: for you cousin & EVERYONE  missing you!!!


Hi lover...HUGE thunder and lightning storm last night...needless to say I was up most of the night again...sleeping seems to have left me.  I still shake my head a lot...clearing out the visions, clearing out the sounds.  Yet at the same time I can't stop looking at the pictures from that day...they make me feel like we are all still together, like you two will walk right out of them to stand with me again.  A girl can dream...Miss you baby, talk to you later.

I'm struggling today with the images of that day...all I can say is I am so very very sorry I couldn't help you...I tried, I tried so hard love...I'm so so sorry.  I miss you so freaking much.


I love you baby...calling it a night, it's all just been too much today.  Night lover.

May 29, 2013

feeling very overwhelmed

I Wonder if People
Understand What it is to Miss You

It isn't about accepting that you are gone
I'm acutely aware that you are not here.
It isn't about moving on
I move forward but you are no further from my mind.
It isn't about forgetting you 
You are still the first thing I think about in the 
morning and the last thing at night.
It isn't about learning to not reach for the phone
I miss sharing my joys and sorrows with you.
It isn't about not feeling your loving arms hug me
I miss the intensity of your love.
It is about no longer sitting and talking
I miss hearing about your hopes and dreams
It is about thinking about you every day
I miss you every minute.

It is all of this times a million...it is a tight grip around my heart and lungs...it is a slow death of my soul.


And again the tears fall...I love you so very deeply my David.  Goodnight.



May 28, 2013




David's Page

Good morning baby...struggling...I don't think I am ever going to get over this.  I miss your face so desperately.  

Oh my sweet, beautiful husband, where do I begin?  I found the pictures on your camera...52 of them, only 2 of which are of you.  I have cried so long and so hard that I feel as though I am floating above myself and am looking down at the poor pitiful broken mess that is me.  My heart aches for you at the same time it screams in agony because you aren't coming back.  I keep saying I love you, but it's not enough.  Thank you so very very much for leaving me with the perfect pictures that remind me of the fun we had.  I love you darling man.




Eve's Page

I had a dream...you were not there but your family was...I don't recall the details but I see your mother and a hallway with doors...

I have no words my sister...but I do have the pictures and I'm so very thankful for that, and the memories of our talks that day.  You will always hold a very special place in my heart.  I love you very much.  




My page

I hope my girls are okay...I know the pictures hurt, and for that I am sorry.  xoxo

May 27, 2013

Morning my sunshine...obviously we aren't doing our 'annual' cookout today, but at lease we have memories of last years...


Want a burger with that dog...
The gang is getting together at the Allen's...you know Andy, always trying to commandeer everyone's time for his own personal needs.  HA (kidding of course).  I know you would be the first to sign up to help and Evelyn would be the second,  and would love every minute of it, maybe you guys will be there today.  It's hard being with the group without you, feels strange to me but I do it...I have to.  Watch over us and send us a sign...everyone has been looking.  I love you and I miss you...me

I missed you today...I cried for you today and I will miss you and cry for you again tomorrow...I love you so much David, I don't know what to do about it all.  I'm just so very heart broken.  Goodnight baby...

I can only hold on to this...

I'll Just Wait In Heaven

I'll just wait in heaven, 'Til we met again.
I know you miss me
Just remember I am free.
Free from pain and sorrow,
God's love fills each tomorrow.
My love's in your heart,
We'll never be apart.
Cherish the love we share.
Remember how much I care.
Someday we'll be together.
Because love lives forever!
So I'll just wait in heaven
'Till we meet again.

Friday, June 14, 2013

LOST

I am feeling so lost inside...I don't know which way to turn. My mind is on overload and my heart is shattered in a million little pieces. This experience is...well not even my worst nightmare...I don't think I could have even thought of this to be a nightmare, I will call it my worst life-mare. Never thought to think it, but here it is anyway.

I feel like...On Sunday May 5th the love of my life and one of my very best friends and I walked miles into nowhere, no people, no houses, no help. We talked, we laughed and we looked around at the wonder of it all...we made plans for the future. We had such a great time outdoors, where the three of us liked to be the most...outdoors. 

I feel like...then someone decided we didn't deserve to be there, laughing, loving, planning. Like maybe it was the most private of property and now we would pay for trespassing. In an instant I was left clinging to a wet rock wall by my fingers and toes while I watched my love be beaten and battered, and my friend be carried off by the white hands of a water monster...I watched as those hands turned and came back for me. I was soaked to the bone with freezing cold water but I hung on, I kept trying to reach out to my love...then I heard it, I heard a strong and demanding and loud voice say 'get out now!' In that instant I looked at the white hands beating my husband and I turned and climbed back out...at the top I looked back in and for the last time saw my husband get swallowed up by the white. 

It was done. It was over. I was left behind alone. I feel like...I was brought to this place, almost died, watched my friends die, and now had to find my way back from the middle of nowhere by myself. It's like the worst game of hide and seek ever...where you can't find anyone, even yourself. You keep yelling 'ok guys, this isn't funny anymore, come out, come out wherever you are'. They never come out and you realize it's getting dark and you need to find your way home but you don't know the way back from the middle of nowhere. It's some freaking test I guess, some stupid game that someone decided I'm supposed to participate in...why, I do not know. All I do know is... I'm still very lost, I'm still in the middle of nowhere and I can't find my way back...I don't know how to find my way back home. I still see the white, I still hear the white, I can even still smell the white. I still see miles and miles of nothing but rocks and water, I still see me on the rocks with my arms in the air turning in circles screaming for help. I still see that there is no one around to hear me. I still see my friend yards out in the water, she's not moving, she's not yelling, she's not doing anything. I thought she was safe...now I know better. I still see that last hand of white stealing my husband from me and I still see that white reaching back for me...it slammed me hard but it didn't take me. I still see that I have miles to run and fall in search of help, I still see that I have to leave the last spot at which I saw my husband and friend...I still see that I am alone and it is up to me to find another human being and tell them what just happened. I have to leave that spot and go find help which I know will not help at all. I left that spot, but not really...I feel like I am still sitting there, waiting, listening and watching for my friends. I can see me with my knees bent up and my arms wrapped around them, rocking back and forth...I am waiting for the white to give me back what is mine, I am waiting for the game to be over, I am waiting for my friends in the last place they saw me. I am just waiting alone.

That is what I feel like...very, forever, lost.

May 26, 2013

Good morning love.  I opened my eyes at 6:30 and immediately shut them, I wasn't ready to face the day...and then I drempt of you!  We were sitting on the couch eating...there was a plate of sandwiches, 2 halves for you and 2 halves for me.  I ate one and then sat back...you ate one...then two...then three, and I'm just looking at you like...REALLY???  So I called you a pain in the ass and got up to go in the other room and you chased me and I kept telling you to get away from me because you ate my food and of course you didn't listen and you chased me all the way into the bathroom.  It felt so normal...GOD I miss you so very much.  You can eat all my food always if you will just come back.  I had just yesterday said several times that I do not EVER, and I have not YET had a dream about you or seen you in a dream.  And then this...thank you for being near me my David, I haven't seen you in 3 weeks. xoxo


My page

3 weeks.

Today is a significant day...3rd week anniversary...this is what I saw in the floor of the tub.  I choose to believe!






Lonely and bored and it's 5 O'clock somewhere...time for a pomtini!  



David's page

Calling it a day lover...Did my best to keep it together throughout the day...as always...but it is harder than you would think.  The tears sit just on the edge of falling and my heart feels as though it is 100 times bigger than it should be...I'm in real pain and instead I laugh, I want to lay down and die and instead I joke, I want to be with you so desperately and instead I am here. Time keeps going...yet time fixes nothing...I am still looking for you, I am still waiting for you, I am still loving you and I am still without you.  3 weeks today...thank you for checking in, (now I know why you chased me into the bathroom ;)...) thank you for being near...thank you for loving me.  Until I see you again...me



Eve's page

Your turn Evelyn...come to me sistah...come tell me you are okay.  You have been gone 3 weeks today.  Love and miss my friend...  

Goodnight...sleep tight...pleasant dreams to you.  Make a wish...blow a kiss...may all your dreams come true...

May 25, 2013

Hello my beautiful husband.  Another long day, but I made it through.  Kate came and we got out of the house for a while...Gillian too.  did you hear us laughing?  God I was laughing so hard, we all were, but G and I mostly...at Kate.  I am without a doubt a very lucky girl to have the friends that i have.  I thank God for them all  every day.  I am also now sporting a beautiful bracelet that states very clearly 'I Love David'...just in case you forget.  It is on the hand that leads from the rings you gave me straight to my heart.  I miss you my beautiful man, I cry for you, and I live for you.  Stay near me please...Good night and I will see you when I see you.  xoxo

Eve's Page

Still boggles my mind...I'm so utterly confused and heart broken and lost.  xo

May 24, 2013

Good morning love of my life...another day is here.  I haven't touched you or heard your voice in 19 days and i can't find you anywhere.  I miss you so very much babe.

Eve's Page

I miss you my sister friend.

May 23, 2013

Morning my husband...no sleep last night...too loud and too quiet all at the same time.  I miss your face David.  I love you.

Well lover...the guy you were in negotiations with to sell your bike just drove off with it...it was hard to let it go but you already set the deal.

I love and miss you in a way I never knew was possible.  Good night my David.


Eve's Page

My heart is broken for you Evelyn, I hope you are okay.


May 22, 2013

...this is still real, I was so wishing it wasn't.  Day 17

Each night that you don't come home from work is killing me a little more inside.  The pain is becoming too much for me to handle.  I miss your face, I miss your voice, I miss your hands and I miss your smell.  I need to put my cheek on your cheek like we always did.  I am so heartbroken.  Please be near me my David.

May 21, 2013

Good morning my angels...David and Evelyn.  Please help me be stronger today.





Shattered...all the kings horses and all the kings men, cannot put me back together again.  Just shattered.  I love you my David.

May 20, 2013

Another day without you lover...each morning I open my eyes I'm amazed the pain hasn't killed me.  I'm so tired...very very tired.

I need you to help me lover...I'm not good.

May 19, 2013

2 weeks today.

Hi baby...went to Camp Kate's today...did you hear us talking and laughing?  It was difficult not having you there with me too.  Last time we were there together...New Years.  I definitely needed the laughs, but my heart was very heavy.  Still not believing this is for real, this is forever.  My heart needs to be with you so bad love.  Hope you and Eve had a good laugh over all of us.  Night babe.

May 18, 2013

My wall Posts

My Dad bought me a power ball ticket...David and Evelyn work your magic please!!!  Pretty please with sugar on top!!!  Please, please, please, please...PLEASE.  There, I'm done. =)



Ever since I knew better, I have been the person that will let you cut in line, I have been the person who has paid your bill while you were still scrounging in your pocket/purse, I have been the person who jumps out in the pouring rain to walk you with my umbrella to your car...I have never, ever received anything for it, nor would I expect to.  It makes me feel good to be that kind of person.  

Anyone who knows David and I, knows he ALWAYS buys me flowers just because...like clockwork, when one bunch dies, he comes home with a new one.  

Today at Aldis I let a guy cut in line in front of me then I switched lines anyway...as i was putting all my items on the belt that guy came back into my line and handed me a bouquet of flowers and thanked me.  He has no idea what he did just then, I stood there with a tear pouring down my cheek because I believe David, in his way, just bought me flowers...I'm still speechless.




David's Page

Good morning my David...it is day 13 and it is no easier.  


Hi my David.  An emotional roller coaster kind of day, I'm feeling so incredibly lost and I miss you painfully.  I shopped for a few groceries and had an experience that left me dumb struck...I'm still shaking my head about it.  Yesterday I was thinking how I would never again have you to buy me flowers..and today some guy at the checkout bought me some as a thank you for letting him cut in front of me.  I know that was your HUGE way of giving me flowers one last time.  I love you so much David...I'm so heart broken...and that just doesn't come close to saying it.  I feel I'm losing serious ground here and now I'm getting sick.  My body feels like I have the flu, which I pray I don't.  Every skin cell, hair and bone in my body is killing me.  I'm going to bed, maybe I'll see you in my dreams.  Thank you for the flowers lover.