There are many things I will miss this weekend. Usually there is a large gathering of some kind by someone we know. That certainly can't happen this weekend, and we understand that.
This is a weekend I associate with my Dad very much. When we were kids, my dad would take us and we would spend a couple of days with my grandparents in Coldwater, MI where they had a summer place. Oh goodness, those are some of the most precious memories! It's funny, I don't ever remember it raining when we made the trip. It was always just wonderful. As an adult and a parent myself, so many years we were able to take the kids and spend a day with him at his cottage. In fact, the very last trip there was over Memorial Day weekend, and Thomas caught his first ever fish. So many wonderful memories from those visits!
I am also missing the family gathering that would have happened this morning after the family made the annual cemetery trip. We didn't go last year for a variety of reasons. Now both Aunt Cathy and G.G. are gone. I'm not sure if this is something that will continue or not for the family, but I have such awesome memories of our family eating breakfast together on the Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend.
I am missing not only those no longer with us, but those that I just can't hang out with these days!
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