PrincessJessa's Journal

It's crazy how one minute you're planning out your week with no worries, and the next minute you're entire family is a mess, you're week is planned out, and days run into one another.

Saturday life was happy & I was looking forward to my 3 days off from work.  Sunday wasn't what I had hoped, but none the less, it was a nice day.  I went to church (alone) and then had a family dinner at my grandmother's house.  That day I went shopping with my mom & then we spend the evening being lazy with my dad.  Everything was going like any other day.  Then tragedy struck.  At 11:55 my dad entered the room where my mom & I were sleeping and told my mom he was leaving to go to the hospital.  I was half awake, but when I heard him tell her my uncle had died of a massive heart attack I was jerked awake by his words.  My uncle, only 33, worked for my dad right next to the house in the body shop and was always around.  He was an every day fixture in my life.  He helped me some days at my detail shop.  He had 2 children in middle school.  The past three days have been so strange to me.  I've never lost someone I loved so unexpectedly.  It doesn't seem real.

Today is the first day I have opened my business.  My dad has yet to go into his body shop for more than 5 or 10 minutes.  He's taking this so hard.  I had never seen my daddy cry until yesterday.  He was a different man, a broken hearted man.  I'm doing everything I can to help my dad get through this.  I'm contacting my lawyer for the custody battle and doing anything else I can.

Hope things get better.