Today is the last day of school for the kids. It means I will have kids at home fulltime now. They will just keep me busy.
Last night, I presented Lydia’s Memorial
Scholarship Award to a sweet high school girl called Shelley Henrich at Sycamore
High School Senior Award Night. At first, I didn’t realize I need to say a few
words at the Ceremony, when I was trying to gather my thoughts together, it was
really hard not to think about Lydia. When I was trying to deliver my talk, …
this is the FIRST YEAR Lydia Memorial Scholarship has been set up…, while I was
saying this, it caught me really badly.
I have to pick up my tears and continue to tell everyone about our Lydia
and why we are having this Scholarship. I was so glad to see such a fine young
lady, who exemplified Lydia’s quality characters, like we state on Scholarship
Application Form:
This scholarship is awarded to a senior who exemplifies the qualities of Lydia Grace Wu by demonstrating loving, caring, always trying her best, never giving up and has hope, in spite of overwhelming odds.
I also got to meet with a family who lost
their girl when she was a junior in High School. It was 6 years ago. They
raised a lot of money and set up a Trust Fund for her daughter Memorial
Scholarship. They said that there isn’t a day gone by without thinking of their
daughter, but life will be getting easier on them. And they also mentioned …
“don’t listen to people who want you to get over soon, you need the time to grieve
and time to mourn”. We hug… we cry… hug
more… cry more. No one can really understand a heart of a parent who lost
her/his child, unless they have lost their own.
This morning, I presented the same Lydia’s
Memorial Scholarship Award to another sweet girl whose name is Ilana Frankel
from Symmes Elementary School which was Lydia’s last school on earth. She is
fighting with her chronicle illness but still demonstrates the qualities of
Lydia lived.
Congratulations to both of you! We are so
proud of you two!
~ Jean