Shelby's Happy Moments

While visiting with Shelby one evening I asked her if she’d like to write a song, my friend Jenna  is a musician and offered to put something together for her. She immediately lite up and said yea I actually have some poems that we could use. We read through them together and I took the poems home to Jenna and by the next day she had put together a rough version of the song and Shelby and I were able to listen to it a few times together. The first time Shelby heard it her smile was bigger than I had seen in weeks, she was singing along and enjoying every word. The song is a mix of all the poems Shelby wrote in her own words, Jenna didn’t change any of the words and only added music and made it all flow together. Today we went to the recording studio and recorded Shelbys song.

If anyone would like to listen to it I would love to send you the file just text 613-206-2303 and I will send it over. It’s a very raw powerful song and expresses some of shelbys real feeling towards her journey with cancer, it’s beautiful and everything Shelby wanted it to be ❤️

Today for work, I had to go to the pool with the kids I work with. It didn’t really hit me until I got in the water and it was freezing and I was on my tippy toes trying to keep as much of my body out as possible. All of a sudden a million flashbacks starting flooding in of Shelby and I in that exact pool just a few years ago trying to keep as much of our body’s out of the water laughing. We would go twice a week to try and help Shelbys back pain although we dreaded it. On the drive there, we would take the long way around driving as slow as possible laughing ours butts off at how ridiculous we were. We would slowly get in the pool, do a few laps and then sit where the jets were just talking and laughing. Before getting out super early so we could take extra long showers and then slowly drive home so Marybeth wouldn’t know how much swim time we were skipping out on. I couldn’t really swim and Shelby never let me live that down. During our time in the pool she taught me how to tread water (it took a few sessions 😂) I was supposed to be there to help Shelby but there she was helping me. I hated swimming and so did she but it started the most amazing friendship and gives me the most wonderful memories.