Tough Ass Day for me

[Aussie105]

47. To walk into the now emptied out house afterwards hit me kind of hard.

That's the moment, for sure.

People spend their lives making a home, raising kids, never realising the whole show will grind to a halt at some future date.

I never went back to the home when it was empty where us 3 kids grew up and my parents lived for decades in their genteel decline.

Same as you but the other way around, mother died, dad hung on but eventually the home was empty.