MORE LAUGHTER; LESS TEARS
It seems as that I go “home” to Ferndale less and less. Part of that is because it is tough to pack up two adults, two kids and two dogs for a weekend trip. Part of that is because the price of gas has skyrocketed in recent years. But really it is because going home is painful. Going to Ferndale is a reminder that my Grandma has passed. I left town and moved to Everett just before my 21 st birthday. I have traveled home for many holidays and gatherings in the decade since. But because I have lived away it is easy to trick myself in to not thinking about my Grandma being gone... Until I go home and I don’t see her smile or hear her voice. When I go to Whatcom County it seems everywhere I go in the area holds a memory of my Grandma. Tyler luckily never complains about my endless stories that start with; ‘Once, My Grandma took me there and…” AND I get angry when things change like how dare they tear down the original ...