Our new reality...

Yesterday we said goodbye to Gill. It was a day filled with tears of heart breaking sadness and also tears of joy and laughter as we celebrated Gillian's life and how she had touched our lives.

In Portland Church in Troon yesterday, the Church where Gill and Paul were married just shy of eight years ago, around 500 people gathered to pay their respects.

Since Gill's passing ten days ago the family have been over whelmed with the messages, memories, thoughts and prayers shared with us via Facebook, Gill's Just Giving page, text messages, emails, cards and flowers. We are grateful for the contact made with us and the comfort it has given.

Above all though the contact and those who gathered in Stirling and Troon is testament to the woman we all loved and now have lost. We have a new reality to adjust too...one that I'm not sure we ever will.

Today the StirlingReidos have spent a quiet day at home. I've spent sometime contemplating this new reality but I'm not thinking too far ahead...it's painful. I've been looking at more old photos and I took a walk out in the October sunshine to walk the Weim with Mr R and my boys. The sunshine and the Autumn colours are good for the soul. Snapped this on that walk, Aunty Gill loved her cows and we will forever love Aunty Gill.