Tag: aunts
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A 10th Vintage Card and Brand New Card
This is the Vintage card I got from Grandma most likely as a teenager or young adult. I find it interesting how similar these two cards are this one I think I may have been too eager to get what was in the card than wondering why Grandma didn’t sign the card. RIght as long…
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A 6th Birthday Card
This card, fortunately, actually has a year written on it; 1995. Aunt Carol wrote it down when she signed for most of the family. Jeff is ironically not on the card, but he’s in the photo down below. He served in the Navy for a time, I’m not sure what years, but could have been…
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Facebook Memories…
Over the previous week a few of my past posts have been showing up on my notifications. I have mentioned one of the posts a couple days ago. Today we knew we had to say goodbye to my Uncle Mike. The timing has been like a sucker punch to the gut with my Aunt’s passing…
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Coping Emotionally
This fuzzy photo is how my brain feels this afternoon. I haven’t cried all of my emotions out fully and yet knowing where she is has been the key. Not to say I don’t feel emotionally exhausted as I know my family feels in a much worse way. The past 48 hours have been such…
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Surreal
Out of the entire last 24 to 48 hours I have been selfishly seeking prayers for Grandma. For some reason, I knew this would be so difficult for her to grasp. Aunt Carol was her right hand for so many things. Then this morning hearing how she took the news last night made me feel…
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A Prayer… Softly Answered
My Aunt has had a difficult year and has been physically, emotionally and spiritually tested. Today has been emotional even not being at the hospital with the others in the family. I have to admit I feel a bit fried and have cried sporadically today. I have a chunk of Grandma’s family photo stash and…
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Relating Yesterday’s Photo’s: The Books
Collecting books is awesome. Especially when the books came with a story or that people had me in mind when they saw a certain book. Somehow that’s pretty special knowing they had remembered my love for history and thought of me; it’s a special connection to the book. There are several books I had tried…
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Loving Words… Feedback
Yesterday was a big day for me. Back when I was in college I day-dreamed of being able to have all of my Grandpa’s siblings together to talk about his service time. It was important to me and I did get to speak individually to some of them, but not necessarily the way I wanted…
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Family Growing Together
Just as my Dad’s family was ingrained into a local congregation so was my Mom’s family. In fact there was an old building right beside the Church which was the one-room school house. My mom remembers when it was torn down and wishes they had done more to stop that from happening. Life happens though…
Jewells of Thought 