Twice in one Year Tinisha Claybon All the holidays in 1996 were perfect. We had the usual gatherings and holiday parties. Everything was going great. But one particular holiday would have to be Christmas of 1996 that I remember the most. Well I remember going to my grandma's house (my mother's mom) house first and then going to my other grandma's house. This was the last holiday on both sides of my family that I had grandmothers. They were alive to bring in the New Year, which would be 1997. But in March of 1997 the most terrible thing happen. My my grandparents went out of town. I remember the day before the whole family was at my aunt's house. (My grandmother had been having cancer for a long time. Her doctor gave her one-year to live.) My aunts didn't want my her to go out of town because she was sick. My grandma had mad her mind up she was going out of town. My grandma and my grandpa left and went back home to pack. The rest of the family stayed behind. At this point I remember my aunts and my mom getting into because my mom said that grandma wasn't coming back. The first night that my grandparents went out of town around two o'clock that next morning the phone rang., and all I remember hearing my dad say;"Is Lyn she's dead." I remember the family getting together to comfort each other. Two days later we barred my grandma. I didn't cry at that funeral I was find I said my good-byes and lived on. Two months later before mothers day the saddest thing happen. (This is how I got my tittle) My father's mother had been sick for along time. My grandmother hid being sick for along time. She had liver cancer. She was treated for awhile. But she waited to long. To make a long story short she died two months after my other grandma. At this point of my life I was very sad. The death of this grandma hurt worse than the death of my other grandma. It hurt more because I spend the most time with her. I cried at her funeral. My mom said that I let both of them go at the same time. That year I learned to live life to the fullest and spend as much time with the ones you love, because they might not be around for ever. That is the moments that change my life forever. In many ways, but the one that gets me is ever since my grandmas died holidays having been the same. But we still have the gatherings.(They're my love ones.)