Two Years Without Sara Holmes: Watching Charlee and Nova Grow While Keeping Their Mom’s Memory Alive

It has been two years since a drunk driver took the life of our beloved Sara Holmes. I still have a hard time believing I can write those words. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about Sara, the tragedy, and how one terrible decision changed so many lives forever. Two years sounds like a long time, but grief doesn’t follow a calendar. Some days it feels like Sara has been gone forever. Other days, it feels like everything happened yesterday. What has changed is life around us — especially for Sara’s two beautiful daughters, Charlee and Nova. They are growing up, and watching that happen has been both heartbreaking and wonderful. Charlee is now in first grade, and Nova is in kindergarten. They both love school, and I think it has become much more than simply a place where they learn. It gives them structure, friends, teachers who care about them and, most importantly, a place where they can simply be kids. Charlee is especially excited about learning. She loves reading a