Yes Happy Anniversary; Something I say with mixed emotion. Today is the day that Mom and Dad married. A day to celebrate. This union brought 7 children into this world, Lyn, Jim, Deb, Bif, Eileen, Rick and Tim, which in turn brought 12 grandchildren and now a fourth generation of kids. It would take too long to list each of the 7 siblings by all the nick names so I won't bore you but you will probably remember most. Feel free to list what you remember in comments.
With this remembrance there were many times of joy, laughter, love and yes pain. The obvious one today is the death of our father, on this day, his wedding anniversary. There have been other losses none less harmful than the other but a hurt that touched each of us at many levels; some deeper than others or different than others, but no one greater than other.
It's a sad day for me but I have to give thanks and remember the good in each of them. No one had a wink of the eye like dad.; could break a "Fuller Hair Brush" like mom, a vocabulary like Lyn, a smile like Tim or the fearlessness of Bif. Yep it is a time to remember the joy.
The good news is we are all going to join them one day. Jesus said "In my Fathers house are many mansions". I look forward to the time our family can all come together in a house provided by God and to think it will not be a three bedroom one bath rancher, LOL. We will not be lined up at the bathroom door at eight o'clock to go to bed. Dad will not have to lay brick and do odd jobs to feed us and thank God mom will not have a Fuller Brush nor a stove to resurrect. Now don't get too theological on me, but new bodies are promised, boy am I ready for that!!!!
So you see we have good, bad, funny memories to hold onto and we can choose to cry or smile with the expectation of times to come. Although sometimes hard to smile, today I choose to do just that and I hope you will too.
With Loving memories,
Jim
PS I am glad that poor grammar and bad spelling is not a sin........Other wise mom would make me go to bed at 7:00 for a month of summer and my sisters would not let her forget. Do you think we will have to go to bed in Heaven?
2 comments:
This has been a difficult week. Let's not forget that just a few days ago was the first anniversary of Lyn's death. The first seems to be hardest. I've thought a lot about our sister this week. I won't go into all the small reminders. I know this is a very difficult time for Sandy, Treena, John and Michael. There are very good memories and I try to keep those foremost in my mind, but there is also an underlying sadness that I'm just not ready to let go of yet. Here's to those brave enough to go before us...
Hi everyone..I didn't realize that the day we had mum's funeral last year was also Mommom and Poppop's anniversary...I knew Poppop died on their anniversary..but i didn't know what day it was in September....
I think there are no coincidences in life....
I miss mum every day....(right now she'd be making fun of me for calling her 'mum')
I think she's around though..the kids still talk about her all the time out of the blue..
love and miss you all
sandy
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