"When was the last time, you ever saw the sunrise?"
Thanksgiving Day is a time to celebrate ones thankfulness for all the blessings experienced throughout the the year, and this year was no exception, and we enjoyed our day.
Other segments of the family celebrated as well off to different gatherings, one segment at a home in the north, and their own group halved at a celebration a little south.
Everyone ended the day walking away with a nice feeling of warmth, and satisfaction of having seen portions of their families, a relaxing meal, and some laughter shared.
My brother called the next morning and prefaced he had shocking news, I clamped down on my teeth thinking it would be either his wife or my oldest brother, I've dreaded phone calls for awhile, I am a realist when I am not a dreamer.
He was right it was a shock due to age. My nephew through marriage has two sisters, he is the youngest 32, his middle sister 36 had gone to pet sit for a friend thanksgiving night, never returned, they checked on her, and she'd suffered a heart attack, already gone.
How can you make sense of it? How will this highly logical young man even begin to make sense of it, his family is a tightly knit group, and she was a lively, fun loving aunt to 3 nephews and 1 niece. She lived at home and hobbied making stain glass with her dad, and provided much humor to her mother. I liked Jaimie.
When the kids were getting married, Kit & I sat with Jaimie, the mom, and the grooms older sister at the shower, ours was the noisiest table, we joked that we would get thrown out due to laughing too much, Jaimie was the one who kept it all going.
My husband's right, you have the next 5 minutes at best, embrace them, live each time frame and day as it comes.
So you walk some distance from the good holiday knowing it will never be the same again for some parts of the family that lost one of theirs thanksgiving night.
