The last several days have been a blur! My mom's first cousin died on Wednesday, so there was a wake and a rosary leading up to an amazing funeral today. Dawn arrived late last night for the funeral. She will be here all week since she was already planning to be here this weekend to support Mom in the benefit auction for our local domestic violence shelter, of which Mom is a board member.
In the midst of all of this, I cleaned out almost everything from my storage unit :) yay! I also did a 'mock pack' to make sure everything would fit. It did! yay again! And, I was offered a couple more jobs. yay again, again! So, I will be teaching another online class while I'm in The DR and I will be doing some college advising and registration this week.
Today was a really long day with the funeral, cemetery, and dinner from 2 until 8:30, but it was a great tribute to our cousin. He lived life in a big, showy, way, and I think he would have been happy with the day. I was lucky to visit with some cousins whom I had not seen in several years. I enjoyed sharing my great news with them. I had a 61 year old, a 50 year old, and a 32 year old cousin ask to see pictures of Wil; it was very sweet! I really appreciated their excitement over my joy. I can now say that I'm going "next week." Wow, it's next week!!!!
4 comments:
I already miss you :-( You'll be taking a piece of many of us with you so you should be whole (ha).waaawaaa
Sounds like a nice service for D. I bet your mom's glad that both you and Dawn are there at this time. How sweet that you are getting so much support. That's because those are the kinds of people you surround yourself with: positive, open people. You are reaping what you sow, and it is good. Love you!
sorry to hear about your mom's cousin. i hope she's doing okay too.
congrats on getting yourself ready to go!! that's awesome that your extended fam has been so supportive too.
i can't believe it's next week too! OMG
Less than a week..... ARRRRRRGH! Preen your wings. You're about to take off!!!!!
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