Our posts have been few and far between because we have been in a state of grief. My Grandpa passed away and we are struggling to get used to the fact that he is no longer physically with us. It is a strange feeling! The kids have kept us moving along, but it has also distracted me from actually dealing with my grief. Sometimes it hits really hard! My Grandpa was a wonderful, loving man. He was always there to support us and show us how much we meant to him. He owned AND WORE every one of our college sweatshirts and would brag to whoever came up to ask him about them. He taught us all to waterski...which had to have taken A LOT of patience. He put up with 7 little girls and 1 boy running around his house like crazy at holidays.
He was there the day my dad and I started the engine to my old Ford truck. He was about as excited as we were to see the smoke and hear the LOUD noise!
I have SO many endless memories of him but I will always be grateful for how much he loved me. I always knew that he loved his family more than anything.
Oh, and one last recent memory of him that I think is a wonderful attribute to how much he cared about his family...
Towards the end, he started losing his memory. He was distraught that he could not remember his GREAT Grandchildren's names (which is hard for ME), so he got pictures of each of them, wrote their names on the back and put them in his wallet. He always printed millions of pictures of the kids to keep in picture books, but this last gesture showed me that he cared about his family more than anything else in the world (except, my Grandma might argue that his driver's license ranked pretty high towards the end :)
I will miss hugging him and watching him put his hands in his back pockets as he stood in front of the campfire. But I know he is in a happy place and he will be waiting there for all of us...and this time he won't have to worry about his health.
I wish I could have seen you one last time Grandpa, but I hope that you know I love you SOOOO much! I am SO proud to call you Grandpa! XOXOXOXO
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