On top of the Peanut being ill, the Bean got her first cold and spent two weeks coughing and honking like an angry little goose.
On top of that, the husband caught his own flu (luckily not the stomach emptying kind). On top of that I contracted another bout of mastitis.
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| The Peanut and Great Grandma hanging out on the garden swing two years ago |
This isn't the first time we've introduced the concept of death with the Peanut. My cousin gave up his fight to a brain tumor a few years ago, and there have been a handful of family and friend's pets who have passed on over the years so the explanations have been built on over time. So what did I get out of our conversation? A tear filled conversation about how many apple trees are in the Summerlands (definitely more than 20) and a reminder that when we lose someone important in our lives that we are not mourning the death of our loved ones so much as we are mourning the loss of the chance to see, hear and talk to our loved ones again.
So, while we brush away the odd tear here and there; if you have lost dear loved ones how has explaining that loss to your kids (if you have them) changed how you look at that loss?
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Aww, I hope you're all right as rain and feeling less sad very soon. That photo is precious and I'm sure you've got loads of grand memories to smile about when the tears slow down.
Sorry to hear you've been dealing with so much at once. I've dubbed 2011 "the year of bad timing" and we too have been sick here way to much. We have luckily not lost a close loved one yet but I have begun explaining death about a friend's pet and we moved from there to Grandparents. Right now he is mostly concerned with if we miss our departed loved ones, which we do and what their energy returns as: "I think your grandpa came back as a duck Mama." I hope that instilling the return of their energy in another form gives them a sense that life and death are more of a cycle than a start and finish.
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