Posted by Julie Ann on October 4, 2009
My dad picked me up today to see my grandmother. Of my dad’s side; my only remaining living grandparent. She’s well over 80 years old I think but still quite of sound mind and very talkative. She has been steadily declining though and doesn’t go outside much, or at all, anymore.
A few other family members [...]
Posted by Julie Ann on September 27, 2009
An aunt and uncle of mine were having their 40th wedding anniversary and threw a big party for the entire family and entourage. They rented a big hall nearby and sent out noticed to everyone invited a few months in advance telling them to keep that date clear.
So it was gonna be this huge social [...]
Posted by Julie Ann on July 18, 2009
I actually had quite a bit written down but decided to do a different take and rewrote the whole thing. Let me start off by saying that my uncle was a great man who, after my grandmother died, took on the role as Pater Familias which is no small task let me tell you. He [...]
Posted by Julie Ann on July 14, 2009
My family got the call to come over to the hospital yesterday as things were looking very grim. It was said it was time to say goodbye. All the brothers and sisters who were able to showed up to have one last moment with him. He passed away this morning. While we all kinda knew [...]
Posted by Julie Ann on June 3, 2009
Today was Lynda’s was going to perform in her school project that they’ve been working on for the past few weeks. There was going to be singing and dancing and a play. All with the same “new to high school” theme. She didn’t have many lines but I knew them by heart as she repeated [...]