{Christmas 2007}
Sometimes when I look through old photos of my grandpa I say to myself "well Ryan looks about three there so I'll have to go back a little further." Ryan is the only child of mine who was fortunate enough to have a relationship with my grandpa, and a good one at that. But now that bond is frozen in time forever because grandpa never saw him to three years old.
{Touch My Foot Again Punk}
Even tonight as I look through pictures on the computer Ryan yelled out "there's grandpa" and I wonder how much longer he will know who the man in the photo is. I'm pretty sure he cannot remember the man who died when he was only two and a half years old.
Tomorrow would have been my grandpa's 77th birthday and he's been dead three years...it makes me sad when I think about him being gone but even more so for the fact that my children won't know him. I had him right next door for over thirty years and his laughter was infectious, I have always said he passed down his sense of humor to my mom who in turn passed it to me. That man could make you laugh like no other and he was so full of life, to think of him in death doesn't seem possible.
My only solace in dealing with my grandparents deaths is knowing they are together now, which is exactly where they wanted to be, so happy birthday grandpa. I hope you're having cake up there and even more...I hope it's not sugar-free.
5 comments:
I should have known from the title that I shouldn't go there, but I did. I know it's sugar free and there is three scoops of ice cream on the side!
I'm thinking it's not sugar free and there is a doughnut and piece of pie on each side. All my love dad and Happy Birthday. I sure do miss you and miss our talks. Hope mom is bringing John Wayne to your party today ♥
Of course there's cake in Heaven! and as a bonus, heavenly cake has no calories.
My kids never knew any of their grandparents, they all lived in Germany, while we came out here to Australia when I was a baby.
I can relate to your post... My Dad died almost a year ago at the age of 59. As much as I miss him - what makes it really hard is that my son, who was 2 and a half at the time, won't always remember his Grandpa who loved him dearly. I had 37 years with my Dad and my son only got 2.5 years. He remembers him now but I know he won't always. There will be a time (soon probably) that he won't remember going for walks with him, playing football with him or spending the night with him. He'll only remember him through my stories of him.
If there is a piece of sugar free cake in heaven,he is secretly passing it off to my Dad and snickering as he takes his first bite! Happy Birthday Uncle Harry. You will never be forgotten.
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