a little bit sad

The last few days have been a little bit sad for me - last Friday was the anniversary of my maternal grandmother's birth: she would have been 103 but she passed away in 1989. She is the one who taught me to crochet (even though I'm left-handed), bought me my first sewing machine and taught me to use it. She would be proud of quilting efforts.

And today is would have been my FIL's 83rd birthday. It is the first birthday since he passed away last April so it's a bit weird not calling him today - WM will call his mother instead and make sure she is okay!

In addition, yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of my father's death. It brings tears to my eyes just typing that - I miss him so much!

Not every bride is so blessed

Here is a photo of DD with her four grandparents. Notice that the tie on the tallest man is the same as the ribbon on DD's bouquet - I wonder why that could be? Same surname perhaps?

My dad is the man closest to you - he was incredibly ill and was just determined to be at the wedding. After travelling for twelve hours by bus, train and car from his place to the motel the day before the wedding and repeating the experience the day after, he was rushed to hospital [150km/95 miles away] the following week and underwent surgery to have a kidney stent replaced on his left side and another inserted on his right*. The right ureter [tube between the bladder and kidney] was completely blocked. No wonder he was in a lot of pain. He could have died but praise the Lord for His intervention [answer to prayer] and dad's stubborn determination!

*Should you require more information about this procedure, you can go here.


Thanks LW and JF-B for the photo.