Poppie

I was not going to write about this, but it really has been a hard week so I need to put it down. My 80 year old grandfather, Poppie, died suddenly of a massive heart attack Tuesday night. As he was preparing to cook dinner for my grandmother, as he always did every night, he fell to the floor and died instantly. It was a peaceful death, because he did not suffer and was not sick. For an 80 year old man, he never took an asprin or cold medicine. He was so healthy, that he was a donor and the doctor's were able to harvest bones and ligaments from his body. That made my grandmother very happy. On the note of my grandmother, things will be difficult. She is in the early stages of alzheimers and sometimes forgets he passed away and when we remind her, she has to relive the shock over and over. Please pray for her, because she will have some rough times. My parents are going to take her in until we can figure out what we can do to take care of her. I want to put down some of the things I remember about my "POPPIE" and some of the things my grandmother has said over the last few days:

POPPIE

Choke Jobs- Which made my mom very nervous, but we thought it was so funny.
Cous Cous and Milk with Sugar- Our favorite breakfast meal
Coffee Milk- The strongest coffee with ALOT of REAL sugar and milk
Drawing- He taught me how to draw when I was a very little girl, he loved to sketch
Gardening- He had a huge garden with the best vegetables and fruit. He even planted my own strawberry plants just for me. We would pick the figs straight from the tree and eat them raw. They were the best figs and strawberries ever grown.


"Live life, it goes to fast"
"Travel"
"Love your children and husband"
"Take care of the things you have now"
"Take lots of pictures, to remeber your life"