Thank you for stopping by and for your kind words here and on all of my other “my family is all dying and I am sad” posts. ❤️❤️

I appreciate it and you so much.

I am no sure how my dad is doing. He is very stoic and holds his emotions in most of the time. I see little cracks here and there, but then he stiffens up and pushes them back in.

I think I am really sad about him not getting there. It is a combo of a lot of missed opportunities over the last 4 years. My family really took to heart the isolate during Covid stuff. I work in healthcare, so my friends and co-workers were social distancing, my mom was so sick and ny dad didn’t want to exacerbate that, so he was staying away from everyone. And I know why we all did that, but I am just so sad about the time we all lost to be together. So when my mom didn’t get to see my grandma before she died, and now dad didn’t see his sister… it just compounds that feeling of loss and missed opportunities to be together. My extended family used to spend so much time together. And I really miss that. The good thing about my aunt being sick and mom being sick.. I have seen my bigger family more in thr last week than I had since Christmas 2019. And that has been soooooo great.

Some proof of that below. A couple of photos from the gathering we held after my aunt’s funeral on Wednesday