What comes to mind - when you think of Tamara

moped wrote: I remember her and i emailing back and forth forever when she was trying to get Blakley to sleep through the night, she wa sone of my first students!
After a bazillion emails she was sleeping through the night and all was well. After that we became "email buddies"
And her smile was one in a million!

What do you think of?

boyohboyohboy replied: I had just had Andrew, and after a really hard two yrs with Jakob and his food allergies and the guilt I felt about Bfing him for so long..
Andrew was starting to show the same signs..we had stopped BFing for fear of making him sick too, and I felt so guilty about it, Andrew was stubborn and didnt want to take a bottle, and just cried and wouldnt eat...I was beside myself.
Tamara wrote me and gave me lots of encouragement and then sent me her own bottles that had worked for her....she over nighted them because I was in such distress...
we hadnt really talked to then, she just reached out to me and helped.

she was so nice and sweet. We stayed email buddies on and off from there...

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Her obvious love for her kids, and her strength in getting through the ordeal with the twins being sick. I also think of how she hated it when people criticized them for having so many kids so close together (not here... she complained about it here but no one here was ever anything but supportive), and how happy and proud of her family she was, with good reason!

moped replied:
How nice of her!

I also remember her wanting Jack and Blakely to get married some day - we always joked about that

Boys r us replied: Love. I just instantly think of how full of love she was. I think of her smile. I think of how beautiful she was..inside and out..and how I thought it was so funny a couple of months back when she said to me "You are so stinkin' beautiful" I mean...really I don't compare to her inner or outer beauty, but she made me smile. I think of talking about Wendy's taco salad with her..and about her messages in my times of need. I think nothing but positive things about her..and there aren't many people I can say that about!

I loved her!!!!! I still can't believe she's gone

Boys r us replied: and I think how I wrote this on her wall in response to her blog about the twins first year..I wrote it not quite a year ago..it makes me sad that she could get through all of that..but something in the year that followed was enough to make her call it quits.


Nichole Foutz Melki
Tamara, that made me bawl! You have been through so much..but I've always known you are truly as beautiful on the inside as you are on the outside and I'm sure this last year has made you an even stronger and more beautiful person..you know..it's all of life's happiness and pain and everything else that make us who we are. I Hope you have an extremely UNEVENTFUL next year
June 1, 2009 at 4:58pm ·

kit_kats_mom replied: Her smile. It was brilliant and beautiful. You could just tell she was a genuinely good person even from pictures. I also remember one of her first avitars, her in a cowboy hat & jeans looking all hot to trot. Made me feel dowdy LOL

moped replied:
I totally remember that pic!!!!!!!!!!!

ediep replied: i always think of how deeply in love she was with Larry. She was always posting on FB and here that she was so luck to marry the man of her dreams and the love of her life! It always made me stop and think that I should stop being to caught up in the minor stuff and be happy that I too have a great marriage

mckayleesmom replied: I always think of how pretty she is and how put together she always seemed. Some days I'm not out of my jammies by noon and she always seemed so put together like a neat little package. SHe was such a sweet person.

I remember the cowboy hat picture....I think those were some modeling pictures she took if I remember right.

My2Beauties replied: Just how beautiful her smile was and how she seemed to always have something so positive to say!! I honesty thought she was one of the prettiest girls I'd ever seen naturally, she looked so naturally beautiful to me.

CantWait replied: Her smile. She could just light up a room with it.

Mommy2Isabella replied: She was gorgeous! As well as such a proud and loving mother and wife!

MommyToAshley replied: Her beautiful smile and kind heart. I was just reading the PM's that she had sent me. She would always send hugs or a kind word at any hint that I was having a rough day. Sometimes, she'd send a kind word just out of the blue. I will really miss her.

Calimama replied: Her sweet spirit.

Danalana replied: I agree with what all of you have said. She sent me a few PM's and they were very sweet. She just seemed to love her life. I miss her.

Kirstenmumof3 replied: I've gone back through Tamara's posts and the one thing that really stood out for me is how much she loved her family and how much she cared about all of us. She responded to more posts than I think I ever have. Her words were so encouraging and positive. She had a really big heart!

coasterqueen replied: Big heart. Beautiful Smile. Strong.

My3LilMonkeys replied:
That picture is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of her....I remember first seeing it and thinking wow....she should be a model!! After that is her amazingly sweet personality.....I can never remember her saying a bad word about anyone.

TANNER'S MOM replied: I remember her walking in my office with Blakely in her hip and giving me a big hug! I remember sitting in a Mexican diner having a marqurita and looking around and seeing every person glancing at her! I remember her being close to 6ft tall and larger than life! I remember telling her to call me before she stopped by for lunch so that I was dressed up and didn't feel frumpy and she never did!! I remember her texting me or emailing me and telling me I was beautiful! I remember her voice and pretty brown eyes! I want her back!!!!

~Roo'sMama~ replied:

kimberley replied: (((hugs)))) Mel.

in a word... HOPE! her love for Larry and the children exuded from every pore. it was supposed to be the happy ending she completely deserved. she stood through every obstacle thrust in her way with determination and kindness. her infectious smile was brighter than the sun. her acceptance and understanding was unconditional. her faith was unwavering. heaven has received a beautiful angel.

moped replied:
I didn't know she was that tall??? WOW

MommyToAshley replied:
I remember you saying what a presence she had and how beautiful she was when you two met. I remember you saying that she was even more beautiful in her person than her pictures. I am so glad you two had the chance to meet and form a friendship. Mel, I know that you and Abbie meant so much to her. In one of her last PM's to me, she told me how much all of the folks here at PC meant to her. I think she did find some comfort in this place, I just wish she could have let us know that she was hurting.

punkeemunkee'smom replied: I remember her incredible love for her kids...I remember her voice the day she called and told me they were expecting Emma Kate and her laugh when I told her what to tell people when they gave her crap about such a big family! She had a great sense of humor! She was in love with Larry and she was confident in that love...I remember that she was joyful even in the misdt of things (the twins in the hospital) that probably would have taken a major toll on alot of other people! She was somebody I was proud to call friend and who I will miss greatly and probably for the rest of my life...there was just no other story like Tamara's (pregnant with the twins when Aiden was 6 weeks old, their incredible story of recovery, Emma Kate...ETC) and I am so sooooo sad this is where we are today!