Happy Double Digit Birthday Branson Joe!

Branson Joe Brannon would be 10 this Saturday, a whole decade old...a whole decade of birthday's celebrated without him here. He would be in 4th grade and if his demeanor was the same he would be super chill, easy going and happy. Years go by one after another often running together in your mind, not realizing how much time has passed or how quickly it all goes. That is until you wake up one day and in the quiet still moment on any particular morning you realize that time HAS gone on and time silently slipped away.

I think of Branson all the time and often wonder how he would fit into the dynamic the kids have with one another. Austin and Hudson are best of friends (or worst enemies depending lol) Stetson is so much older than the other kids, but he really does love his siblings and laughs with them often. Kinlee is the only girl, but her and Branson were only 13 months apart so...what would it have been like if Branson lived? How would their relationship be? I like to think and often imagine that they would have been close. They would be each others person.

Even though I have sadness surrounding this day because I don't have him here, I try to find some joy in it. This was the day God gave me the gift of Branson. He gifted him to me for 9 months and 1 day. I am thankful God chose this for me because the other option is that I wouldn't have had Branson at all.