Fire and Grandmothers
My mom just called me to say that my Grandma's house partially burnt in a fire last Thursday. Grandma is fine—she's staying with an aunt outside St. Louis—but the family is looking on this as a good time to move her into an assisted-living home.
This is the second home that Grandma has lost to fire, each one taking a little bit more of our family's history along with it. Grandma had a natty suitcase in her room filled with newspaper clippings spanning sixty years of our family's history. I'd always meant to borrow that and scan them in, but never did.
Joel that is terrible. Luckily my family has never been through a fire and I hope your grandma doesnt let her down. Its always easy to say "going to" or "should have" but things happen for reasons many of us dont understand why.