Sharing a few words · 6:19am Jan 17th, 2019
So originally I thought I would come home and provide an update for the next chapter of Ask Roseate Grimsbane (maybe tomorrow), however after some consideration, I think I'll just talk a bit about Grandmipony to you all. Partially because I also want to organize my thoughts for the words I'm going to say at her memorial in two days.
So here goes.
Probably my oldest memory is when I was upstairs, playing with some Duplos with my Grandmipony. Later my mom showed up and lay down on the couch, not feeling very well. After sharing this memory with Momipony, I learned that this was probably around the time she was pregnant with my little brother, meaning I was around two at the time.
I also remember the holidays. We would go to Grandmipony's and eat the standard holiday food, before sitting around the television and watching either Pinchio or the Little Engine that could. Our Christmas presents would be just below the tv and usually they would be a Beany Baby. I still have some of those somewhere.
The last words that I can remember my Grandmipony telling me word for word is this: "Don't shave your beard! I need to take a picture!"
For clarification, Grandmipony was a photographer and she loved taking pictures. She told me those words just before the Thanksgiving of last year.
While I am glad that she is no longer in pain, I will still miss her. 
-Images like this bring a smile to my face, even when I feel down.
Thank you all for your support.
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I like this one, because I can totally hear the "Om nom nom" sound she makes in that scene.
It sounds like she had a wonderful family and lived a full life. From what I've read, she sounds like a fantastic woman who the world is worse off without. Still, it was her time and she doesn't seem like the type who would want to you to be too sad. Yes, she'd want to be missed, but she wouldn't want you to suffer for her loss. I just don't get that from what I've seen. That's why I'm glad you're sad, but not too much so. It's rare for someone to be able to step back and put their emotions into perspective. I think she'd be very proud of you right now, Rob.
Good luck at the memorial, friend. I imagine if you speak from both the mind and the heart, you'll say something that would make your grandmipony smile as she watches over you. And really, that's what's important in my own opinion; not what's said, but how happy you think it would make her.