Georgia and Terri - thank you for taking the time to respond to my post. As I find myself saying very often (and perhaps you feel the same way?), it's just nice to know that someone is 'still' thinking about me and understands the pain I'm going through.
Terri - I believe I am going to print out your saying about "grief and waves" -- as a lawyer (by training, I don't practice any more), that seems to bring some logic to this process; I needed that. Thank you.
Just to give you a little more insight into my life, my parents are now raising my nephews (8 and 10). Their dad (Jori's ex-husband) is . . . let's just say we're all better off without him in our lives (unless and until, he cleans himself up). My parent's now have legal guardianship (at ages 63 and 66 - how amazing of them, eh?). We are "working as a Village", it's just so hard to 'celebrate' ANYTHING without wishing Jori was with us . . . hopefully she is.
Thanks again -
Scott