WOW, Mary Ann! This is so touching and personal. How wonderful to remember such sweet times with a dearly departed loved one.

You've chosen to use an interesting arrangement of verses: a couplet, a quatrain, a sixain, and an octave. The rhymes are often couplet rhymes, but not always. I'm seeing multiple feet on the various lines, including dimeter, trimeter, and tetrameter.

Great poem! WRITE ON!