Time

Tonight after we got out of church I called my mom, she told me that my great uncle died today. We weren't particularly close or anything, but it's sad because that was the last living sibling to my deceased grandma. A whole generation that is gone from us, so many questions that I wish I would have asked them. I have always been pretty close to all of my grandparents, and I really appreciate the two that I have left. My grandma died a little over 4 1/2 years ago, I was really close to her. I lived with her all through college, she made our wedding cake, but unfortunately she never got to meet any of our children. My "mamaw" died two days before the birth of our first daughter. I was getting ready to go to her viewing at the funeral home when I started to go into labor, and I was in the hospital when they had her funeral. It's been so long now, but it still seems like I should be able to pick up the phone and call her or go visit her. Not being able to go to her funeral really made it hard on me, I really never got any closure. You just never know when a loved one's last day will be. On one of the message boards I am a member of, one of the ladies just had their two month old baby die of SIDS. It just makes you want to hug everyone around you, but it seems like you get so wrapped up in life that you put hugs and kisses on the back burner.