Jewells of Thought

By the timestamp on my paperwork for my class, my one summer course was taken in 2005. This was a very trying and overwhelming year for our family. It was the year of Firsts. The first planting season without Grandpa all of the firsts you can think of we went through all of them.

I don’t know why I decided to take this course I can’t remember. Maybe it helped to get all my 3 Geography courses covered before the fall it doesn’t really matter now I guess. The timing is what gets me less than 3 months after his death. It hit us all really hard, maybe I saw this as a deterrent, keeping busy right after the end of the Spring semester.

Why is it that when someone you love that is full of life dies the whole family stops talking about them? Maybe the thought of being around my cousin was what I thought I needed to insulate that close family connection!

Somehow Lilly and I came up with a plan to have some girl time in the middle of my summer school course. I have two younger brothers, Anna and Lilly had a younger brother; it’s funny how our family fits together then add Ian and Ashton. Giving our grandparents 4 granddaughters and 4 grandsons. Anna and Lilly were like my sisters, a lot of the time when we went anywhere as a family we were asked if we were triplets. All of us were close, growing up because of Grandpa keeping us together on vacations and family activities.