Beautiful bench

Yesterday was a very sad day for our family. We lost my grandmother, Holly's great-grandmother, who passed away in her sleep. We're happy that her passing was peaceful and are so grateful and blessed to have had her for so long in our lives. Who can ask for anything better than at the age of 90, to go to sleep beside your true love of 72 years, in your own bed, and just slip quietly away?

We will miss her so much - she was such a big part of our lives and really was the heart of our family. Today, Paul and I went with Holly for a quiet anniversary dinner at Horizon's on Burnaby Mountain, which is where we got married. Upon arriving, I saw a newly placed bench on the path... and immediately knew it had to be the one we had been waiting to see for quite some time. It's a bench we had purchased in honour of my grandparents' 72nd wedding anniversary this year. It was heart-breaking for me to see it there, just the day after she left us. My grandmother would have loved to see Holly sitting on the bench - the first person to do so, and I'm sure she did see. . .