Happiness

  Dear Dad,      It’s almost been a year since we lost you. It’s sad to think about and I still have days that I cry and miss you. Losing your Father last month didn’t help at all.       I want you to know that I love you. That I will take care of the Legacy that you left me. A legacy of love and faith and kindness and goodness. You are my Father and I know that you are watching over me.  I love you, Daddy! Love, Your Megan Rose

 

  This subject is still very sensitive to my heart and I will try to get this written down without crying too much. My Dad’s Dad- John Robert Hulihan passed away from kidney failure in Salmon, ID on Saturday October 22,  three weeks before his 97th birthday.   My sisters Larissa and Amy and my Mom went to visit him in his care facility the weekend before. We were so glad we went and so glad to see him! He was mostly lucid but would sometimes feel as though he was somewhere else.    For two or three years I would call Grandpa up on the phone every Thursday afternoon at 2 pm. Every time I called he would say give the kids a hug and a kiss from Grandpa. The last time I talked to him on the phone- two days before he passed, he those same words and said “keep up the good work.” This is the exact same thing my Dad said to me the week before he passed.     It’s been hard to lose both my Dad and my Grandpa- who was like a second Dad to me- in less than a ...