ohbloodyhell8

I read it.  Please do not read into this post that I am sad and filled with regret of what could have been.  The lady wasn’t nice, at least not to my mother or me.  The last time I saw her was in an airport and I told her she should treat her mother with respect.  Shouldn’t that have been the other way around?  This is what I found interesting in the obit.  When her husband, my step-grandfather, died, my mother and her children (me and my siblings) weren’t included.

In her obit, we are.

It’s simple.  She controlled what went in Grand-dad’s obit.  I’m guessing my great-aunt wrote Grandma’s obit and she included us because she’s nice.  I find it hard to believe they are (were) sisters.  The obit also mentions “two great grandchildren”.   Did some of my cousins have kids or is that a reference to my sons?  Don’t know and probably never will.  If it is a reference to my sons, it is nice of my great-aunt, but sad because she never met them or Hubby.  Perhaps my great-aunt doesn’t realize that.

And so closes the chapter with that relative.  I’m the type of person that needs to see something to believe it.  Either attend the viewing or read the obit.  Then I believe it.  I felt a calm reading it.  She can’t do anything to hurt my mom again and that’s comforting.  For my mom’s birthday one year, Grandma sent a card with my mom’s (biological) father’s obituary in it.  I guess that was the gift?

One day I’ll explain to the boys about that part of the family.  Or not.