Day 24 in 2nd 30 day blogging challenge

My family dynamic now vs the one from my childhood is vastly different. When I was a kid, I had 3 grandparents as I never met my dad’s dad because he passed 10 years before I was born. I was always around all of my grandparents because my dad was so close to his mom and stuff. I loved the parts of my childhood that had his mom in it. She was such a wonderful person. I was also around my cousins a lot as a kid because we had a lot of get togethers and mom’s first sister’s kids are mostly close to my age. My cousin nathan is 3 years older, his brother is 2 months older than me and his younger brother is 3 years younger and their sister is 5 years younger than me. As I became a teenager, I saw some of the family less and less except for my dad’s side. When I was 15, my dad’s mom passed away. It made the whole family sad needless to say and I don’t think my dad has ever been the same. My dad during my childhood compared to my dad now as I am an adult is almost completely different. His attitudes about stuff, they way he has treated me and everything else. It’s hard to describe.

Now, I only have ONE grandparent left. So I got 15 years with my grandma and 21 years with my mom’s dad. When you’re a kid, you think that your parents and grandparents will live forever. But they won’t and it shatters you.