Holidays without a loved one.. or pet..

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Now, I know losing a loved one is for most people worse than losing a pet. But there are those who just love their pets as if they are their kids, like my fiancé and his parents do. Even my mom basically did with our cat. And they say its the same, as well as people who prefer animals over humans and say losing pets is actually worse.. whatever.. to each their own.. Anyways, I know any loss at the holidays hurts. But those first losses.. those really hit deep, for most. And this year we lost our cat at the end of May, which I've written about. Making this past Halloween and Christmas the first one without him. So Halloween of course was weird since he'd always sit by the Halloween bucket for trick or treaters, and christmas instead of him laying under the tree.. he was on it. As we got a in loving memory pet ornament with his years on it to put his picture in that is right on the top of the tree. My grandmother also lost one of her brothers this month. And she went back and forth on coming the four hours for the visitation. But in the end she, my aunt that lives with her and my 17 year old cousin all came. (And we spent most of the afternoon and night together. As well as a little bit of the next morning before they went back home.) But as always my grandmother didn't want to leave. And Christmas was extra hard for her. As she is the second oldest (and only girl) out of I believe six or seven kids, and has now lost three of her brothers. And it makes me so sad for her. And then on top of that, my cousins almost lost their mom (my bio-aunt) to a heart attack on Thanksgiving. But she got to the hospital fast and got stents put in, and is doing better now.