That First Year, a story of love, loss, family, and resiliency, with hope, tears, and laughter.Family relationships can be complicated, even during the best of circumstances. And under the worst, amid loss as family dynamics change, those relationships also change. Old relationships can either be comfortable to fall back into or they can feel oppressive and claustrophobic. Childhood memories revisited from an adult perspective offer humorous glimpses into the past and new relationships with a deeper understanding can form.Elyse Laramie created a happy, loving home for her three children, who now, as adults, are successful and living independent lives away from home. She'd had a happy life, but not the life she'd planned on when at eighteen discovered she was pregnant, and she married the only man she'd ever been with.Tim Laramie was her life.

But he was also a career-focused and single-minded man who, at his own admission, was never really a part of the family. Their marriage was not what either of them wanted it to be, but it wasn't something that either of them wanted to end, either. Elyse always hoped that the future would bring about a change to what it had become. Until an accident tragically ended his life.