Let's raise a glass

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I'll raise a glass to you dad.
i wish I'd got to know you better before dementia stole you.
Raising 🥃 and wishing you'd known your grandchildren

To L.
Your kids have turned into great teenagers. Troubled, but they'll get there. Their dad is doing ok with them. They miss you. I miss you.

Raising a glass to my Dad, our second year without you. How we miss you and we would love to have you here 😔

Raising a glass to my Mum and Dad, my MIL and my friend Jo.

🍷To my lovely grandma. Died on Thursday and it just doesn't feel real. You weren't just a grandparent, you were my blueprint for living. Feeling very lucky to have had you for so long, but the pain that I feel without you feels unbearable right now.
Sending lots of love to everyone on this thread.

To my FIL who died last Christmas Day. He was a kind-hearted awkward old bugger and is much missed. Also thinking of two friends who both lost a parent and their children grandparents within a couple of weeks recently.

To Mum and Dad. I miss you both so much

Many years since my dad died, but we’ve just moved and I’ve found one of the few pictures I have of him. He knew his grandson briefly, but not his granddaughter.

I hope you’re proud of us dad.

To my friend; I thought we'd know each other our whole lives 🖤

🥃

To my mum who left us 24 years ago - not a day goes by that I don't think about her. My dad who left us nearly 5 years ago. I miss them both.

Raising a glass to my parents who both died in 2020.
I love and miss you both especially now as you both loved Christmas so much. I really wish you could have been here to give me your calming words of wisdom following my recent heart attack. DD will miss you both dreadfully when she marries next year but her DP has promised to cut his hair for the day though so you don't come back to haunt him.😂

I'll raise a glass to my darling Daddy, gone 40 years next year. A lifetime without you.
To my lovely Mum, died in 2014. Never remarried and still missing my Dad to the day she died. Now reunited.
And to all those who have passed. I miss you all.xx

Love to everyone who has lost a loved one xx

Raising a glass to DF (January 2022) and DM (May this year)
♥️♥️♥️

Far too many empty seats in our family, but I’ll raise a glass to my lovely Granny who died 18 months ago at 96 years old, and to my sister. Thank you for the thread op 🍸

So many glasses we all want to raise.
🍸 🥂🥃 🍷
so many memories

To T, taken too soon. Your amazing laugh would turn heads and make everyone laugh along with you. Thank you for the signs you send. I see them and I know you're there. 🍷

Love to all who are treading the lonely path of grief ❤️

🍷 to those lost this year, DP’s brother, his brother in law, a wonderful friend, she lived abroad so we no longer met up as often but I miss her wonderful rambling emails. Our beloved dog who I miss every day.

Five years since my dad passed away but dementia took him earlier than that.
My step mum
The most lovely grandma who made such a difference to my life.
My younger sister, who died suddenly and should still be here today ❤️

For my best friend of 50 years that I lost this year to cancer. Love and miss her every single day.

A glass to my mum who died in 2006, my dad who died in 1978, my dearest friend "M" who died in 2009, my beloved dog who died in 2003 and above all my darling husband who died in 2016.

Thanks OP for starting this thread and love to all of you here.

My beautiful son Jake, who lost his life to cancer in April aged 13. So loved and so missed x

Raising a horrible stout for my Dad.

It's minging. Dad I hope you appreciate that I'm drinking this on your behalf, and you're laughing at me wherever you are. ❤️

Sending you love. I'm so sorry.

Raising the most ridiculous looking cocktail I can find for B, because that’s what big sisters do. Miss you.

To my lovely, always there, always funny, strong Dad.

Although it's heartbreaking to read of so many of us missing our Dads, it's also heartening. We read of so many dead beat Dads, it's nice to know that there are so many good ones too.

Please can I raise a glass to my lovely Mum. This is our first christmas without her. Mummy I miss you so much, I think about you every day and I would do anything to have you back. You made christmas so special when I was a child, I hope I am doing you proud. I did a christmas ham today like you used to do, I wish I could show you as I think you would be proud of that too. I love you so much Mummy.

Also to my Granny and Grandad. Both gone for a few years now but still very much missed. You both loved christmas and gave me some beautifully happy memories that I will treasure forever.

Oh how to be able to go back in time