June 20th 2012 was one of the hardest days in my life. We found out that my Mother in law, Joyce Martin (really my 2nd Mother) passed away. She had been battling illness and conditions for years and this time it just go the best of her. There is all kinds of speculation as to what happened, but I believe that the Lord decided it was her time to go.
This woman meant so much to me, she was much more than an in law. I mean I never looked at her as an in law, she was always just Mama. Most everyone I know doesn't like their in laws, so never really liked using the word, seemed so horrible.
I've had to tell my kids before that someone wasn't with us anymore, usually these were people they didn't know. But this was the hardest thing I have ever had to do as a parent. I had to tell them that their Grandmother had passed away, and at such a young age. The older ones it hit harder because they had more time with her, they had grown up knowing who she was, seeing her regularly, etc. But the younger ones really had been around long enough to have all of that time to get to know her, see her, be with her.
Robert has taken it the hardest, I think. Myself I know I've taken it pretty hard too. I'm not sure how long it will take him to be okay with it. Not that he should be okay with her passing, but that she's no longer suffering, she's no longer living the life she was living, that she is up there looking over both of us and our boys.
On June 23rd 2012 went to view her one last time. We let all of the boys see her before the closed the coffin. We drove out to the cemetery where she was laid her in her final resting place. She will always be in our hearts and in everything we do. We love and miss you Mama Joyce.
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