Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Holiday recipes, 0 by rubyw

rubyw wrote:
Oh Diane - I am sorry that I had forgotten that this would be your family's first Christmas without your dad. I bet that it was difficult for everyone. Thank God that our hearts and psyche's heal with time. Each person has their own time limit on how long it will take too.

It took me several months after my dad passed away for me to cry over it. One day while going through his things I came across about a 20 year old card that someone had sent him. The card was talking of how courageos he was to live his life and do as many things as he could despite being handicapped with a type of Muscular Dystrophy. I sat and sobbed when I realized that yes indeed he had a tough row to hoe.

My mother passed away a few years before my dad and I will at times see something that will remind me so much of her. I will make a confession about how I was unable while they were alive to appreciate them as much as I should have. Now, as I am raising my son's, I see the heart break that my brother and I must have caused them from time to time.

Sitting here and thinking of my dad makes me a bit sad. I regret that I wasn't able to extend more love to him than I did.

Again, we do heal from what might be described as gut wrenching pain and come to a point where we can have mostly good thoughts about our parents. I know that there are some anger issues at the medical commnity with your dad's death and I am sure that it makes it doubly hard.

You have a lot of friends here, so whenever you might need a shoulder, just drop us a line. Take care my sweet hart.

Oops - some one needs to refresh my memory on how to post pics. Thanks ya'll.

Ruby