00:00I would do anything to hug my mom one more time, and I don't wish this pain on anybody.
00:07I know she's all around me. I just wanted to tell you guys the signs that I've had of her.
00:12Just stole a wine glass. So tiny. She thought it was so cute,
00:16and I didn't know she took it. I come out and she's like, I stole it. I borrowed it.
00:21Two weeks before my mom died, she always kept saying to me, I love you to the moon and back.
00:26She didn't know yet that there was a special meaning behind her words.
00:30I was like, oh, that's weird. Like, she's never said that to me before.
00:34But I always said, I love you to the moon and back to you, mom.
00:37When she had passed, I was going through some of her things, and there was this book,
00:42and she didn't write in it since 2020. And it said, the first cover was, I love you to the moon
00:47and back. And when I opened it, there was a page for me. And it said, dear Jess, when I pass,
00:54this is the things I want you to know.
00:56What happened next confirmed to Jess that her mom was always with her.
01:01A couple days after my mom died, I took my kids to Times Square,
01:05and we stayed the night there because we just needed to get the hell away.
01:09And I'm like walking through Times Square, and I'm looking at my phone,
01:12and all of a sudden, I look up at a billboard, and it said,
01:15do you love your mom to the moon and back? And it was a Pandora advertisement.
01:21And I looked at my daughter, and I was like, what the? I couldn't believe it. I was like,
01:27thanks, mom. I told my best friend about it, and she got me the Pandora bracelet,
01:31and it's engraved, I love you to the moon and back. It was my mom's birthday and her death date.
01:36And that was just the first sign. The more she missed her mom, the more she felt her presence.
01:42On my way home from her house, picking that gift up, there was a moon, a half moon on my right side,
01:47and I'm like rubbing my eyes. I've never seen it so big before. And I blinked, and it was gone.
01:52And I looked back up, and then it was on the other side. I know I'm not crazy. I know what I saw.
01:57After that, I'm sitting outside, and I'm looking at the sky, and it's so cloudy. There's not one star
02:06in the sky. And I looked down, and I'm like, damn, I wish there was stars. And I said, I miss you, mom.
02:11And I looked back up, and one appeared. This was her mom's way of showing Jess that she is always
02:17there with her. I ran down to my driveway. I looked at that whole sky, and nothing was there
02:23except for that one. And I cried, and I was like, thank you, mom. Like, I love you. The other day,
02:30I was outside, and I looked down, and my son was nowhere near me. And I looked down, and I'm like,
02:38I miss you, mom. And he comes over to me, and he goes, I just want you to know that grandma said
02:46she misses you, too. And I looked at him, and I was like, what the, like, what did you just say?
02:53And he goes, I told you, I have the ability to talk to grandma.
02:57There is no stronger grief than losing a parent, but they are always, always with us.
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