Quick update - family
Aug. 23rd, 2006 12:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothMy mother died on Monday afternoon, aged 74. I'd been warned on the Sunday that her condition had detoriated since I last saw her (Thursday) so it didn't come as a big surprise.
I'm more or less ok, and realise that my sister who lives in the same town, has had it worse.
The bit that does upset me is the grandchildren issue - my maternal grandmother had her children early and got to see eleven grandchildren grow up, all but one basically happy. We had her. That's not been the case here, my neice and nephew are 13 and 14, and JoJo's still four, and it feels like both sides lose. It's also reminded me that I'm unlikely to see grownup grandchildren.
I'm more or less ok, and realise that my sister who lives in the same town, has had it worse.
The bit that does upset me is the grandchildren issue - my maternal grandmother had her children early and got to see eleven grandchildren grow up, all but one basically happy. We had her. That's not been the case here, my neice and nephew are 13 and 14, and JoJo's still four, and it feels like both sides lose. It's also reminded me that I'm unlikely to see grownup grandchildren.
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Date: 2006-08-23 01:22 pm (UTC)and it feels like both sides lose.
Yep. My father's father died before I was born and my father's mother died when I was about 3. There are photos of me with her, but I don't remember her at all. My mother's father who died in January lived long enough to see two grandchildren get married, three of us graduate from university but not long enough to see the youngest two finish school:( My sister had a different relationship with our grandfather to the one I had - she only ever knew him as an elderly man, whereas I remember him and our grandmother living with us when I was pre-school age, and being taken to the shops and raspberry picking and stuff with him.