Today I didn't do much as it is my day off, but I went to the local Pharmacy to pick up a few household things that we need.. I turned the corner to see this older couple that if I didn't know better was my grandparents. Mind you I have been having dreams on and off lately, and that have had things that would remind me of them... this was almost too much. I stopped dead in my tracks and I know that my mouth fell to the floor. In that second all I wanted to do was go hug her and see my grandfather look at me and say "There is my girl". The couple probably noticed I looked at them shocked but probably had no clue why.
I left the store with nothing that I came for, but I got memories that last a life time. We never know when our ticket is up... both my grandparents passed with some form of cancer. They were great people, and they have defiantly molded me in more ways than I can explain. I walked home with tears streaming down my cheeks... not something that comes easy to me being emotional... I'm normally the strong one. Not today!
I walked away remembering my grandfather left a note on my mom kitchen table one day in the summer that said "Kill Roy was here" at the time it was my cousin and I home... we heard someone so we hid.... he never said anything to announce himself, but he joked with me afterwards about it. And my grandmother.... she taught me how to play cards, they used to call me a card shark. Since they past playing cards hasn't been the same to me. They also used to take me to the shore with them for a week every summer.... we used to stay up late an get up early to go out on the beach. My Aunt Dawn would pack her car and we would head to bake for the day and the back to the house where my mom mom had lunch ready for us. After the long days in the sun and sand my grandfather would take my cousin Dereck and I to Ocean City MD to walk the boardwalk and ride the rides.... things were so simple then. So many times I think about them.....
Below I have posted the only picture I could find of my grandmother... now I have a new mission... get more pictures together so when I need to see them I can even if it isn't in a physical way.
To all those who have past, you may be gone but you are never forgotten. Someone somewhere will always love you and think about you and the times that you had.
