I have always been close with my grandma. She looked after me when I was a baby and my mum was at work. She took me to preschool and kindergarten. I visited their house almost every weekend and went to the cottage at almost every holiday when I was a kid. Grandma always loved to tell stories about things that had happened to her when she was younger. One of my favourites is when she was little, her cousins said it would be fun to go into the pig pen at her house and ride the pigs. She decided to try it. The pig she was on decided to run back into the barn and she got knocked off and fell into the mud. Her grandmother found her all muddy and she got into trouble. Another story I like, about when she and grandpa were dating. They were on a balcony on the second floor where she was living. Grandpa was fooling around on the railing joking around saying he was going to fall. After a bit of that, he actually did fall over the railing and so did grandma when she tried to grab him! Luckily they were not hurt. Obviously it's hard to tell these stories in text because it was the way that she told them that made them so funny and great to listen to. My grandmother was an amazing person. Though she had some very hard times in her life, she was always so kind and generous. She was able to make friends everywhere. Even when she was very sick in the hospital her warm heart touched people. I am so happy and proud that I got to have her in my life. I know that I would never have been the same without her. She did so much, not just for me but for our whole family. I hope that I will be able to live my life in the same way. I will miss my grandma so much. In the past few years that I have been living in my grandparents house, she was in the hospital a lot. It was lonely without her around all the time. I guess I will end this with something a friend shared with me. He reminded me that matter is never created nor destroyed, it just changes from one form to another. Although her consciousness was released from it's shell, she will she be with us. We didn't lose her, just her physical form. Our memories of her will always keep us together. Even though I will miss her very much I know we will meet again. I love you grandma.