I will be attending a heart breaking veiwing today and funeral tomorrow...

Wow. I don't know what words to offer. Just know that I'll be sending good thoughts your way.

 

Jesus.

I wish I had never clicked on this thread.

 

This is on the very short list of the saddest things I've ever read, anywhere. Holy crap.

 

God....so sorry. Best wishes.

 

Goodness. That's an endless nightmare for everyone. Our best, 93Devil ...

 

Fuck.

That's the most wretched nightmare.

 

Speechless.

 

So sorry, Devil.

Those parents will never recover.

 

The family received friends last night during a driving rainstorm and lightening storm that lasted almost the entirety of the two hours. Even with these conditions, I had to wait 35 minutes in line to give them my condolences in person.

I'm pretty sure I could open up a high school gym this morning and hold this funeral. The guestbook provided by the funeral home has 152 comments on it already.

This family has touched so many people in such a positive way, that it really makes you question what happens in the great scheme. Hopefully someway, somehow that we do not understand yet this family will be reunited with this little boy. Keeping that thought is the only way I could stay sane if I was them.

As I was waiting in like with a couple other mutual friends, the father, who is Tony Siragusa big and Italian, seemed to be doing well, but when he saw the glue friend in our group he just lost it. They buried their faces in each other's shoulders (mind you one guy is giving up about 200 pounds in this embrace) and I just heard the father keep saying how much he missed his boy.

The father requested a lot of poker nights. He just said he needed an escape.

 

damn. no other words for this.

 

Try your best to give him every poker night he requests. Hopefully, it won't be that many, and I doubt it will, as he really needs to be there for/with his family.

 

My thoughts are with everyone concerned with this awful story. There, but for the grace of God, go any of us with kids.

Stories like this are what made me jump at the chance to go work in the toy department. The things I write about don't wake me up in the middle of the night any more.