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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

JHSEsq at Colloquium presents Nana and her boysMy mother died Octo­ber 13, 2005. In some ways, it’s hard to believe it’s been that long. But it also seems like much longer than two years have elapsed. This is the last photo taken … with the four peo­ple who mat­tered most to her.


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1 kailani Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:06 pm

I think that the pass­ing of a par­ent is some­thing that one never com­pletely gets over. You never envi­sion them as get­ting older.I’m sure you have many won­der­ful mem­o­ries of her!

2 And Miles To Go.... Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:21 pm

what a beau­ti­ful mem­ory and a won­der­ful pic­ture!! Happy WW.

3 Lori Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 6:14 pm

Great look­ing fam­ily :smile:

4 SandyCarlson Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 8:06 pm

What a sweet-faced woman, and what lovely young peo­ple. I’m look­ing at that dyed hair and think­ing his hair could be puce and grandma wouldn’t care. What a beau­ti­ful photo. How lovely that these kids knew this woman.

5 Sherry (Redbud) Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 5:57 pm

Noth­ing can replace the loss of those whom we have loved.

6 MyStarbucks Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 8:26 pm

I am so sorry for your loss. She looks very happy to be with every­one and I’m sure she smiles down on you for keep­ing her mem­ory alive.

JHS 7 JHSEsq Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 1:36 am

Kris­ten: She lived for those boys. The sun rose and set on their lit­tle heads. My mother-in-law was the same way. Just typ­i­cal dot­ing grand­mas. :-)

8 pips Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 4:09 am

A great fam­ily photo. Greet­ings from ger­many :-)

9 Christine Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 10:29 am

My beloved Mama will be gone a year on Novem­ber 26. Still dif­fi­cult for me to fathom. There are days when I still pick up the phone want­ing to call her and hear her sweet voice. Great photo. Thank you for sharing.

10 Hoto Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 11:27 am

The peo­ple we love live on in our memories.

11 Siddha Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 4:03 pm

Beau­ti­ful fam­ily all right, and yes– it’s always hard to lose some­one so dear, so close.

12 Hair Loss Solution Thursday, October 11, 2007 at 9:03 pm

Great Fam­ily ! Los­ing a par­ent is like los­ing a roof from your house. But it’s sur­pris­ing that many of us real­ize the value of our par­ents only after they are passed away.

13 supertiff Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 8:50 pm

i hate october…it’s filled with anniver­saries like this for me, too. Thank­fully, my mother isn’t on that list. I can’t even imag­ine it. iI hope you’re doing ok.supertiff’s last blog post..scenes from the bar: the some guests kick ass edition.

JHS 14 JHSEsq Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 11:48 pm

Super­tiff: I’m fine.

Sadly, my father died in Jan­u­ary 1992 after a 16 year bat­tle with heart dis­ease. He was only 73. My mother died in Octo­ber 2005 fol­low­ing a long decline into Alzheimer’s, just 2 weeks shy of her 89th birth­day. It is hard, but is the nat­ural order of things.

My great­est sad­ness comes from the fact that my father adored his grand­sons more than any­thing in life, but the young man in this pic­ture and my youngest do not remem­ber him because they were both so young when he died. My sis­ter and I have spent a lot of time over the years watch­ing our 4 boys and think­ing, “Oh, Papa would love this if only he were here,” espe­cially when her old­est got very inter­ested in cars. (My father was an auto mechanic.)

But we can’t change the way things are … we can only remem­ber and be con­fi­dent that we will all be reunited even­tu­ally in a bet­ter place.

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