Family Wisdom

Remember those friends or family members who have lost someone; don’t leave them out but don’t be offended or too pushy if they need to be on their own.

 

From Facebook Archives

21 December 2015

I remember my first Christmas without Phil waking up, in the middle of a mid-December night, in a panic thinking

"But where will I send his Christmas card?".

 

In our seven years together I'd spent a few Christmasses at home in Wales without him so it wasn't so bad.

 

But we had spent every New Year's Eve together, and that was hard.

 

I sat in Blodfa's front room with the light out.   

Sat in my Granma's seat next to the fire looking into the flames, just like she did in the decade she was without Grampa.   

Wondering about how she had felt and remembering how she had told me about seeing pictures inside the embers.   

And fortunately my family were wise enough to leave me alone because I needed no one that night but the one I'd lost.