Very simple but very true.

I got married this past July and him and my mom walked me down the aisle. That meant a lot fo me. I will add a photo of that to this entry. I think the favorite story he’s ever told me was one of his few war stories he talks about whether he was pulling my leg I dunno, but I still love the story.

“a bunch of guys and I were camped in the jungle near a villiage and we somehow acquired a dog. There were monkeys in a lot of the trees and we got one of them drunk. The monkey decided to annoy the dog by climbing on his back and riding him around camp. The monkey held on to the dogs ears.”

It has also been several years since I heard this story so I may have convinced myself that that’s how it went LOL! Who knows!

I am going to go add one of the pictures from the wedding.

My ‘little brother’ is allergic to chocolate, MSG, and a ton of other things, his mom isn’t making the school give up hot lunches or any celebration with chocolate. He just takes his own lunch and says no thank you when offered something chocolate. He knows to ask if it’s got MSG in it. This was established before he was even in kindergarten. It’s not hard to condition your kid if they understand they could get really sick when doing something.

If I didn’t have enough trust in my kids to condition them to ask about their allergies, I would home school them. But because I do plan to condition my kids, if the need arises, there won’t be any reason to homeschool them.

I could and would only support a school banning certain foods if more than 5-10% of it’s kids have the same allergy. I think it’s a waste of time, and hell, that’s what epipens and school nurses are for.

All I can say is this: he is still alive. It’s good to empathize with his pain and it’s essential that you are at his side through all this (trust me, it will help you sleep at night once he’s gone… I promise) - but in the end, just know that even though he is in pain and isn’t always the same person he used to be, he is still there in your life and you need to enjoy/embrace every moment you have with him. And make sure you find a belonging of his that is filled with his memory… and ask him if you can have it. It’s easier to do now than later.

Go hug your Grandpa and tell him you love him. Ask him to tell a story you’ve never heard before… a war story (if he went to war), a story of how he met your Grandma, whatever… just something that you can hold onto for life.
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