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[UPDATE] is my Christmas gift to my [29F] Christmas gift to my mother [65ish F] more upsetting than (by Sparky)

 Sparky (0)  (29 / M-F / Massachusetts)
28-Dec-17 2:00 pm
[UPDATE] is my Christmas gift to my [29F] Christmas gift to my mother [65ish F] more upsetting than kind?

Okay so the original post can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/relationshi...mother_65ishf/
So first of all, you guys are amazing. I loved reading all of your comments and stories. The feedback was all based on personal opinions and personal experiences and it just made me feel a bit less alone. It was just touching and nice so thanks guys.
So the summary for those that didn’t see the original, my grandmother died just over a year ago. She was a beautiful star of a woman and the world will never be the same without her. She was severely wonderful and she made every person that ever met her feel like they were special.
For Christmas I stole the VHS tapes out of my parents basement when I was visiting a few months ago. I had them transferred to Digital files and I made a Christmas video. The video consisted of footage of my mother’s childhood, walking and eating ice cream with my grandmother. Playing with a kitten in the backyard, her 17 year old at the time brother wearing a full suit and tie. Footage of my moms grand mother. Footage of me and my brother when we were 3 and 4 going to visit Santa. And footage from Christmas in 1990 when my mom and her siblings and all of my cousins went to my grandmothers for Christmas together for the last time. There’s footage of my grandmother kissing me and my brother goodnight and The video ended with a beautiful clip of my grandmother saying “welcome to Christmas at the FakeLastName house. I hope your day is just grandâ€.
I was worried that it might be a bit hard for my family to see at Christmas because it might reopen the wounds.
Well. My aunt was very busy for Christmas so I asked her to please drop by for a few minutes whenever she could because I wanted my mom to see the video with her sister.
I sat them down and played the video. Right away they were like “what?!? How did you?!? OH MY GOD LOOK AT HOW YOUNG MY FATHER LOOKS!!!â€. They reacted so well. They laughed, they cried, they shouted out together in unison about all kinds of things like “OMG ITS THE GOLD DRESS!!!!†And they were just so happy. Like so so happy. I’ve never seen them so happy and excited and it was just the best reaction.
My mom took me aside afterwards to thank me. She then proceeded to forward the video to the entire family. She’s been receiving thank you emails ever since.
My aunt showed the video to all my cousins on Christmas Day and emailed me today to tell me how truly wonderful it was and how every single person who saw it felt like my grandmother was talking straight to them when she said “I hope your day is just grand†which is exactly what I felt when I saw it.
It could not have been better. Our family is changing and Christmas is so different than it used to be but just going back and remembering how things used to be for a few minutes is just so wonderful sometimes.
So thank you everyone and I hope you all have a wonderful New Years and I hope your day is just grand.
TLDR: my grandma died and we miss her. I was nervous to gift my mom footage of my grandmother for Christmas but you guys said I should so I did and everything was just so Great.


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 MrWalkSoftly (16)     (58 / M-F / Louisiana)
28-Dec-17 8:18 pm
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