Emotional Clean-out
They’ll always be in your heart. I find more that the little things which I can hold in my hands make me look back and smile about my great-grandparents, and my grandfather who died. I have my grandfather’s belt (big honkin country style belt buckle) that I wear from time to time, and a doll from my great-grandmother. I also have a handwritten letter my great-grandfather wrote me when I was born that still stirs my emotions…
1 year agoTomorrow I have to start wrapping and moving things out of my grandparent’s house. I feel gutted. It will all feel so wrong and so final. Things that I have seen in the same place for 35 years will now move on. A house that I have been coming and going from will be sold. It will probably be sold to strangers. Strangers that will not truly know how it was built by hand, brick by brick, by my grandparents all those long years ago.
Well, there’s another all too familiar feeling. The sting of tears, again. The same pain that has haunted my family and I more times than we care to think about this year.
