No Humpday Holiday post today. Instead, a few pictures of my grandmother (my mother’s mother) who passed away on Sunday night. I’m working on a slideshow for her funeral and these are some of my favourites.
On her wedding day:
With baby me:
Fun:
Meeting Lillian for the first time:
I hope that somewhere she’s having a lovely reunion with my grandpa, my mum and my uncle.
People usually say Lillian looks like me and Edward looks like Dave. Lynda sent me these photos of Dave today at age one and four so I did a comparison. What do you think?
Dave (R) and I (L) aged one:
Lil and Ed aged one (and nearly one):
Dave, Lil and I aged four:
To my Dad:
To Dave’s Dad:
And most especially to Dave on his first Father’s Day as a father of two.
Three most excellent Dads.
My mother, Edwina, 15/03/1953 – 07/06/1994.
Lillian calls her Nanna Weenie and we talk about her and look at photos. She says out of the blue sometimes, “Your mummy died” or asks me why, and I try and come up with a simple explanation that won’t worry or scare her. I’ve told her she was very very sick. That the sickness was called cancer and that sometimes people can get better from it and sometimes they can’t. That she’s no longer here but we still remember her.
I will be thinking of her next weekend when we visit Western Plains Zoo, a place we went on our last family holiday the April before she died. How it was freezing cold and windy and we had to buy zoo jumpers from the gift shop to keep warm. How my Dad pushed her around in the wheelchair while my brother and I rode bikes. How she put on a strong face for us even while she must have been feeling awful.
(An earlier Western Plains Zoo visit.)
I’ve now lived longer without her than with her and I don’t know what life would be like if she was still here, but I know she would have loved this little girl and I tell her that too.
Xanthe has uploaded some great family portraits she took for us in Katoomba. You can see them on her flickr here. Thanks Xanthe!
