January 19
It was Sunday morning January,19 2009. The sun was shining brightly which was unusual because the weather hadn't been good for a while. Even though it was bright outside, it was not a bright day. My mom and aunt had gone over to my grandma's house because she had not called yet, something she always did on Sunday morning to see how the morning was, before going to church. My cousins had come over, Breezi, Jonah, Douglas, and Chava. My mom and aunt were gone for a while, we tried calling, but never got an answer. We could all sense that something was wrong. We called again and finally got an answer.
"Where are you guys?" I asked, relieved we got an answer.
"We're at grandma's house," my mom answered quietly.
"What's taking so long?"
"We'll be home soon, OK?"
"OK."
After a while we heard the door and we all ran over there, anxious to see where they'd been.
"We're home!" called my mom
"Finally," Chava called back.
"Kids, sit down," my mom suggested. My aunt was crying and my mom had red eyes.
"What's wrong? Why are you guys crying?" asked Jonah.
"I'm sorry, but grandma died in her sleep last night," my mom said, her eyes starting to tear up.
"What?" said Douglas, stunned by the news we had just gotten, although we were all kind of expecting it.
"I'm really sorry," said my mom.
My grandma and I were very close, my whole family was. We went to her house almost every day. When we were sick we would always go to her house for the day and lay on her couch. My whole family loved her very much, but we eventually got used to having her gone. For a while, all of us were sad and didn't want to see pictures of her, but eventually we liked to look at them and think about all the fun times, and hear stories from our parents. For the first little bit it wasn't all that sad because it didn't really seem real, but as time went by and we realized that she was really gone, it was really sad. I miss my grandma, but my family still has good times without her and we wouldn't have had those good times if we just thought about the bad and wished she would come back.
I got this picture from: http://www.picgifs.com/graphics/grandma-and-grandpa/4/
