Life will change.

And it will definitely be difficult. The challenges of emotional adjustment will definitely be the most difficult for us all but I expect it to be the most severe with Pops and I am somewhat tentative to speculate about how we will work through it all. It will be painful. Something unknown to any of us to this degree... but we will endure. And we are thankful for the incomparable blessing of Mom's life and her character and everything she is. I will keep my thoughts short for now, as I am not currently caught in the roil of emotional torrent I expect to come after she passes but this helps to break the ice a little and for me, and how I will need to work through the challenges of her loss, I will need this sort of therapy to help carry me through it with any sort of success.