My grandpa died this weekend. He was elderly, but still. It was unexpected. It was totally unexpected. I was going to see him next week. I was bringing his great-grandchildren to see him next week. We were going to see him next week.
Now we're not.
We'll go on, we'll continue - of course, of course, we go on, we continue - but we won't see him again - the landscape is forever altered, our landscape is forever altered - and the sadness of that just defies words.
But we will go on. We will go on and we will miss him and we will be grateful to have had him and we will remember that and we will remember him and that will have to be enough.
Requiescat in pace, Grandpa. Love you.
Go, In Peace
Sunday June 28, 2009
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Catherine Connors is a mother, writer and recovering academic who traded the lecture hall for the playroom and discovered that university students and preschoolers have much the same attention span. In addition to Bad Mother blogging at Beliefnet, she is, among other things, the author of HerBadMother.com, the moderator of Her Bad Mother’s Basement, the co-founder and co-editor of WeCovet, a contributing writer/editor at MamaPop and BlogHer, and most recently (deep breath) founder of and contributor to Canada Moms Blog. And in her spare time… oh, wait. She doesn’t have spare time. But she’s okay with that.
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peace to you, as well, catherine.
"...and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"
Oh I feel you. I made a split decision to move where I am to be near my G-Ma after nearly 20 years. After a year of the girls getting to know her, getting in atleast one year of holidays she died. The month before I kept saying I was going to go visit, call, take the girls to visit, visit. Its all I can think about when I think about her. I am so very glad we got this year that we had but I want more.
I want more of her. I. I could go on. My tears tonight are for you. I know my G-Ma would be happy with what I am now.
My condolences to you and your family. Don't you hate that getting older means we have to deal with the deaths of the ones we love?
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