a year ago today

Tomorrow is our lass's first birthday.  It has been a wondrous, challenging year. As much as I've been thinking of what I was doing this day last year, my thoughts are with a childhood friend of mine, who lost her mother to cancer a year ago today.  I cannot imagine what the past year has been like for my friend.  The timing of her losing her mother just as I was about to become mother to another is uncanny.  I pray the relationship I develop with my daughter is as strong as the one my friend had with her mother, and I wish for my friend continued peace, solace, and strength.