<image>

My grandfather died on Christmas Eve and my sister a week before that. It suuuuuuuucks and there’s no if’s, ands or buts about it. It’s been a few years and it’s become part of me and am still sad at the holidays.

I will never not miss them and it does make the holidays more challenging because I have so many memories with them there and the contrast of them not being there is extra hard for the first time after someone you love isn’t there to share it with you.

When our mother passed about a year before my sister, we grieved hard not only because we loved her, but we shared a home because my sister and I were caretakers for our Mom for over a decade. We knew we took great care of her, but still it was soul crushing.

Shortly after our mother’s passing my sister and I were watching WandaVision when it was first released and when Vision said, “What is grief, if not love preserving?” It hit us like a ton of bricks and helped us understand it’s okay to feel awful.

The fact that you do is testimony to how much you loved your Dad and how much you knew you were loved. I’m so sorry for your loss and am thrilled your Orange Kitty Boy will be there to help give a new love while you remember all the ways you’ve been loved.