A death....

can be truly devastating especially when you didn't really realise how much that person affected you.
My son's birthday was going beautifully, had a sleepover with his best friends, went to karate, dropped my daughter off at another birthday party and then THE PHONECALL!!!!
The phonecall which I wish had never happened.
Dead at 56, from a brain anuereysm. Johanna Murray, wonderful woman, friend. She was so full of life, had semi-retired from her job as primary school principal but was still working as an ESL teacher, working with refugee women, and putting together a fantastic programme on teaching sex-ed in schools, (my eldest two were priviledged enough to have been taught that programme...so who is going to teach the youngest two???)
I am still in shock not sure how I am going to be this week, I guess she's the most significant person in my life who has died....my grandparents died when I was younger but I guess I felt a little removed from them...and being older you kind of expect it...but Johanna...no she was still so full of life....