So on this Eve of Christmas I started to think about:
My childhood friends- gone from this life- who used to call up on Christmas and ask if it would be okay for them to come over and how my Mom or Dad or one of my other relatives would snatch the phone away from me and say to them, ” if you weren’t busy asking stupid questions you could be here by now.”
I thought about my Grandparents and my Aunts who left us but not before they taught me to be brave and kind and creative – and to never be afraid to speak up.
And I thought about my sweet cat Wolfgang- aka Insanity Jones- whose confidence in me to take care of him and to be his friend never left him- I saw it in his eyes when he died.
I thought about how I could easily sit here and just grieve over all of these losses on a night that’s about gathering together to celebrate life and hope.
And in the end I knew I couldn’t do that because
what they all gave to me, nothing can ever take away.
Remember that.
I always will.
Merry Christmas
amm
Irregular Bones 
I’ll try and remember that. right now I’m still grieving stephen but it’s my first xmas without him and maybe by next year I will just think happy memories instead
It’s hard N.M- but you get to be there for Stephen in a different way now- so now when I go through these things I sort of take everything in for all of us.
And those Happy Memories are a done deal- those are yours forever.
I like that idea.
Darn, AM, now you’ve gone and made me all misty-eyed. Thank you for sharing your Christmas memories and for making me dig up a few of my own memories.
🙂
May his little soul rest in eternal peace.
Hi Kitty and Lori
This was a sad post- but I mean it, everyone in that post always warm my spirit- I wish they could be here for me to say these things to…but they know how I feel
Still.
They’re there as long as you keep thinking of them.