Beautiful words by Andrews mom. We love you Toni Pinkstaff-smith and we are all with you today. God Bless you and Dru/Drew is walking with Him now and watching over us all. Toni Pinkstaff-smith 38 minutes ago near Aurora, CO · I will see only the body of my son today. His soul is rejoicing in heaven at this very moment. I know that Andrew is with me and he always will be. However, my heart is not whole. He held such a deep and profound ever lasting impression there. He was my son,my only son, my last child, my baby.How can I share 34 years of being Andrews mom. He was delivered by c-section on July 28th 1980 and he sure filled in his dash till August. 8th, 20014 His family and I can not express what your words and your pictures have meant to his daddy, Billy Smith and his sister Sarah Gleason and brother in law Rick Gleason.The four of us will, I hope pull strength from each other and what has been shared as we will need it in days, months, and many years to come. Each one of us is a very different place with our grief. Its hard as the mother to watch the rest of my family hurting and I havent really been able to really grief and process all this because Im a mom I need to fix it. I need to help everyone else. Thats what moms do. Its with the heaviest of hearts, I can not fix this one. I ask for your prays, positive thought,and your understanding as I give my sons body one last kiss today. Hold his family close. But also give us space. We havent had much time for just being with family. Andrew has his granny and granddad living here in Aurora to. They are my parents of the tender age of 84 and 83. All they keep saying.its not fair, it was to be them, they lived a full life. Im an only child so this was their only grandson. No it isnt fair, but it will be just as hard on me their child when I do lose my parents. We have always known our son was special. We knew him only as our son. We either called him Andrew or when upset, it wasAndrew David! We loved him and raised him the best we knew how. Sarah knew him only as her little brother with all that comes from just being siblings and fighting and loving as they do. Since this unbelievable tragedy....there has been a blessing, yes I said a blessing. We are learning about our Andrew. To most of you it seems he liked to be called Dru! It is through the stories and pictures and words that his friends have shared that we have learned just how fun,crazy,loving,helpful and truly amazing our son is. As hard as they have been to read, I have laughed and cried and been in awe of all the lives our son touched or his was touched by. We are so proud to be his parents. Andrew jumped into this harsh world out on his own at about 18-19 years of age. You all know that age...when you know everything. We always stayed in touch and we saw each other although it was never as often as a mother wants. He was busy living his life. When his sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it shock his world. He had a hard time wrapping his head around it just as we are trying to do now. He and I would cry together and talk about his sister and he would say mom, it should be me, she didnt do anything...Im the wild one. I would tell him, it shouldnt be anyone. It is in much bigger hands to handle all the whys and what ifs. He moved in with is daddy and me on the night of Sarahs surgery. I was very blessed to have him HOME...for almost two years this Thanksgiving. He is now home with God. I do not have to worry about him now...that may sound harsh, but I know where my son is. There is some peace for me his mother in that. I know not everybody is in that same place and it is ok. I will miss him with my whole being but I will hold him close to me again one day. So to you his friends. Hold on to each other,celebrate the Andrew you knew and dont ever stop sharing with us. Andrew thought of all of us as his family. What a blessing. — with Andrew Smith *Please see Tonis page for more photos and feel free to friend request her and Billy.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Aug 2014 17:51:38 +0000
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