Parent Log 02-068

To my beautiful squish,

It has been far too long since my last letter to you.  The last few weeks have been kind of tough, and have made me realize again how important these letters are to me right now, and perhaps to you also someday.

We recently found out that your Grandpa Mark has cancer, and while it looks like he will be around for a bit yet, eventually it is a fight he is going to lose… I am doing my best to keep my spirits up about it, because I know there will be time to be sad later, and I know i will regret any time spent wallowing instead of making the most of it.

Despite my best efforts, the second I think about the way your eyes light up when you see him, i burst into tears.

Grandpa had surgery Tuesday to open up his breathing, and you and your mom came to visit him in the recovery room.  If it was possible for pure joy to make everything better, i’m positive the hour you spent there would have mended everything. You had no way of knowing what was going on, and that was exactly what he needed. You lit up when you saw him, yelled “Bapa!”, and spent the time climbing all over him and asking for rides up and down on the hospital bed.

Things aren’t going to be easy for Grandpa in the upcoming weeks, but we will see him a lot, and I know how much happier he is when you are around. Perhaps that joy can’t make it all better, but it will make it as good as it can get.

I love you,

Daddy