today i miss my grandma. she is gone now but the memories, thoughts, feeling and smells, yes, smells are still as vivid as ever. today it has been 4 years since she passed away. she was born in 1915, but in August, so she was 89 years old. didn't quite make it to 90. she did, however, make it to reagan. she held on and waited to see that baby like she said she would. every once in a while i get really sentimental and start missing her real bad. now i know i am past the greiving process and i can healthly miss her now, but sometimes there will be something i see, smell or hear and i get overwhelmed with emotion on the fact that she is no longer her.
i will always remember the night she died, when payton woke up at 2am crying out from a dead sleep for his grandma, and the call the next morning, early, from mom, confirming what i already knew. these pictures were taken in 2007, at the lincoln park conservatory, where she loved going several times a year. this is probably the place that i can remember her most enjoying. and of course, russell's, both of which are still the same as they were.
thanks grandma, for the love, the guidance, the memories and the food. we wouldn't be the same without you!
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