This Cake is For You!

I never knew how she did it, how she kept up with all the people. How she managed to make every single person she was talking to feel as if they were her Best Friend. I think we touched on this before, but it’s true and to me its mind blowing. After she passed away I had so many people reach out to me saying they communicated with her every day and how much they were going to miss those text messages from her. And I’m not just talking one or two people which in my mind would seem reasonable, but I’m talking dozens. And these weren’t group messages or cut and paste the same thing to each person. These were true genuine, authentic (there’s that word again) conversations. I know cause I had them with her….every day!

At some point in her recovery she must have subscribed to the Rachel Hollis line of thinking or whomever came up with the idea prior to Rachel Hollis (BTW, If you haven’t read Girl Wash Your Face go order it now….well unless your a man then don’t but if you are a man you could subscribe to her husbands Pod Cast, he is pretty good too). That is get up an hour early and do something for you. Go to the gym, write in your journal, read…something, anything, but it has to be you time. She did that. She got up early, got her coffee, got on the couch with Bob and started in with the messages. For those of you that got them you know what I’m talking about. She was checking in on people, sending inspirational quotes, sharing an article and then there were the cake pictures.

Every day she checked her FaceBook Events page and posted Birthday cake Pictures on her friends FaceBook Walls. While the rest of sent generic Happy Birthday Messages she would search out a picture of a cake that made her think of you and post it on your wall. If your Facebook Page was set to private she sent it to you through messenger or text, but she made sure people got them and she wanted them to know she was thinking of them on their special day. She did this every day and it blows my mind.

So those of you that know her know why I’m writing this today. Those that don’t or don’t know her well are about to find out. Today is Patti’s Birthday. She would have been 73 today. Today I and many others would have posted Birthday Cake pictures for her on her Facebook Page. Today we would have celebrated her because it was her special day! And now, well you know the now.

I can’t write much more today because I really can’t do hard today. It’s gonna be a hard enough day as it is so I’m gonna end this post. But before I do, do something for me today. Do something in honor of Patti. Checkout your friends list and see who is having a Birthday today (or yesterday or tomorrow if you don’t have somebody today), find a picture of a cake on google that reminds you of them and send it to them and see what happens, see the response. It really is lovely!

Oh and Patti Best, my amazing mother this cake is for you!