Family-Tradition-Life

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It has been just over 3 months since my ex-husband died. But I am super thankful that we had remained friends over the 45 years we knew each other. I still find myself wanting to pick up the phone and call or text him. I know it will take time to get past that. Our two children and our eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild mean so much to me. Family isn't always what we wish it was. I have always been the kind of person who believes family is very important in life, from the family I was born into, to the family that became mine with marriage and children. Traditions, holidays, and all of those things are so vital to my life even though they do not always mean as much to everyone else as they do to me. Now my six youngest grandchildren are two states away, and even when they come back to visit family, their mother does not bring them to see me. She does not like me and never really has. She had to put up with me when she was married to my son, but now that they are divorced, she doesn't even speak to me. My son's other children are all adults now and don't have time in their lives to visit me, and this includes the mother of my only great grandchild. She is 3 now and I have only seen her 3 times in her life. The only grandchild I see fairly regularly is my 16-year-old son of my daughter. He comes to visit occasionally even though he is crazy busy with all his music, band, and other school activities. I miss family. I miss traditions. I miss children's laughter, and the brilliant conversations you can have with them when they are very young as well as they grow up.