A few years ago my Grandpa asked to see "all Jim's kids at once." So today we made the nearly 95 year old man's wish come true. It took years to coordinate, it seems that when we can all get together, we don't have a car all of us can fit in, if we have a car we can all fit in, we don't have time off together to go. Anyway, today it worked, today one brother took the day off of work, the other brother was on vacation, I was off. So the plan was to get Grandpa to tell stories and to record him, but the recording didn't take place.
It was wonderful to be with him, wonderful to spend time all together. It has been many years since we were all there together. One of us, two of us, maybe my brother's kids and his wife and me, but today all of us were there, it felt different than when the three of us are together with our significant other's, I can't describe it, I don't know the words to say, but it felt right. Perhaps because today we weren't children, today he saw us as the adults he has helped us to become. Today I saw his pride in us, his satisfaction that we are all happy and healthy despite the trials we had to overcome in the past, perhaps he saw that although his eldest son died too young, his legacy lives on and will continue to do so.
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