My gran has been a great support to me in my life. My parents, as much as I love them, really were not cut out to have kids. My father was a very angry man and often violent towards us and my mother was an alcoholic. I love them both dearly and have over the years more or less rebuilt my relationship with them but I know at the end of the day I can't really rely on them to be there for me.
My gran has been a great support to me financially over the years. When DH and I got married she gave us money, when we bought our wee house she bought us a fridge and recently DH and I have hit troubled times with money and she helped us out.
I have thanked her for her generosity already obviously but sort of want to write her a soppy letter letting her know how much her support has meant to me. But she is of a different generation and is not a particularly touchy feely person if you know what I mean. I don't want to irritate her or make her feel uncomfortable but I sort of still want to write to her and let her know that she has been a great resource of reliability in my life. I do have a tendency to be over sentimental though so please do let me know if I am being too much of a softie and if you think that I might make her feel uncomfortable.