Today would have been my Grandma Lois's 76th Birthday! It's been almost three years since she passed away! I still miss her so much. I miss her hugs, her phone calls, her sitting in her chair at her apartment while I put together her medicines, how she always asked why we were leaving so soon even if we had been there all day, her telling me how much she loved me and countless other memories.
If she was here today I would have called her to wish her a Happy Birthday, and probably gone to see her. She wouldn't have had the party with the family until Thanksgiving Day probably. She would have downplayed the fact that it was her birthday. She would tell me she had nothing to wear to Thanksgiving dinner, and ask me again how many people are going to be there. She would have been nervous about coming. But me, or Jenn would have picked her up and taken her to mom's house for Thanksgiving dinner where she would have made the stuffing and gravy! She was forgetting the recipes she had made all her life though, so maybe she would have just sat and visited. We would have had a cake and she would have had a party. Everyone would have celebrated, because she was so loved, even by those who didn't know her well.
She was the matriarch of the family. I would always tell her that she would outlive me, because God knew I didn't want to be here without her. But, she did leave. She was ready, even if we weren't. So today I celebrate her birthday, missing her, but knowing she lived the life she was meant to live. Her memory lives on forever in the hearts and minds of all her family!
We miss and love you so much Grandma! Happy Birthday!
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