Just last Tuesday while I was at work I received a call at work. One that no one wants to receive but it will happen probably once to everyone. "Honey it is me I just wanted to let you know that your grandpa passed away." To be honest I was expecting the call to be soon because he had been suffering with cancer in the recent days. In the next few hours I managed to get off work and prepare to head home for the services. It wasn't going to be a pleasant visit because I was going to say goodbye to a man I dearly loved but it was also a time I was going to get to see some family I haven't seen in years. The few days passed quickly. There were some family members that I got to see they had never met my family. In conversations with them it was like we just talked yesterday. Most of them seem to start off with "yeah I saw it on facebook" so it was like they just talked to me. So sad but that is another topic. With other family members the bitterness or anger disappeared because we were there for the same purpose, to say goodbye.
Before I headed home back to Loranger. I decided to stop at my grandmothers house for a goodbye. The same house she had lived in since I was a little girl. Everything still look the same.
She asked me if I would like a cup of coffee. I poured my cup and fixed it using the same sugar bowl I had for years and then it happened. I sat down in the bar stool at the kitchen counter and all of those memories came pouring out. It was the same bar stool I crawled in a child to watch my grandma cook and wash the dishes. The same bar stool I sat in to read the morning paper with my grandfather as he worked on his crossword puzzle every morning.. It was the same on I would sit in and talk to Tim when I lived there and lived here.. It was the same one she use to tie my girls in with an apron because with didn't have a high chair. It was the same one I had endless conversation with my grandmother and grandfather and all the advice they would give me. I could go on and on with memories. All those memories or good ones and I am glad I can say I was able to say goodbye to wonderful man without any regrets. Don't let someone leave this earth and you wishing you had said goodbye. Take the time to call them and touch base other than facebook. Forgive the ones you need forgive. Love on the ones you see everyday. Treat everyday like it is the last.
