Sometimes I forget how much I love my family.
Tonight was the first night I had been to my Grandpa's since he died over a year ago.
I sobbed on the way over. I don't know whether it was the angsty teen ballad playing in the background, but this wave emotion just came over me and I cried.
My Aunt was there and we figured out which key it was to get in the house and went inside.
I hadn't been in that house since February of 09. It was weird looking around and seeing things scattered about to be separated amongst the kids and grandkids. I looked into his bedroom. The room he passed in. It is filled with Christmas things, but when I walked in I just felt him all around me. Like he was hugging me again. I really needed that hug.
My Aunt and I talked for close to 2 hours about everything. My Grandpa, my family, my life, my gramps.. It was so overwhelming.
I have lost two of the most important figures in my life in the past 3 years.
I miss them. My heart aches for them.
But like my Aunt said, "It's just too hard to miss him anymore"
It's true but neither of us can help it.
I learned we are so much alike it is unreal.
I think tomorrow I might pop over to the graves of my grandpa's just to say hi.
It has been too long.
I've never stopped missing my Grnadpa and he died about five years ago. It gets easier but still comes in waves. Last month I got his birthday tattooed on the inside of my wrist. I cried for days afterward, but now it feels good. Better.
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