Done

Stick a fork in me... I'm done...
Today was the funeral.. it was small but poignant and went well.. the girls attended and they did great. Took them to the Funeral Home with us and I made sure to show them Great Grandma and tell them that she is sleeping now and that she was a beautiful lady that I will tell them more about someday. I also showed them the DVD movie that my brother put together in tribute to Nana. They really liked the section with Baby Mommy in it. We moved on to the church for the Funeral itself. That went really well. Anna was very quiet and thoughtful during the ceremony. Lily at one point would up with my SIL, Brother and their kids since I presented the Gifts along with my Cousin Jen as the only Granddaughters of our Grandmother. Anna wound up with them too after Communion.

On our way to the cemetary, we wound up witnessing an accident on the highway. There was a car that swerved to avoid our procession (we had just gotten onto the highway) and wound up making other cars swerve and a van wound up going up a snowbank in the fastest lane and flipping on it's side. I still am shaking a little after seeing that happen. When we arrived at the cemetary we had to all take a collective moment to catch our breaths and talk about what we had seen before continuing on with the burial.

Once that part was over we all started gathering roses and other flowers to take home with us. I made sure to grab a red rose and started asking those that might know where approximately my Dad is buried so I could leave him the rose. My brother wound up helping me figure it out and gave me a nice hug of understanding and even asked if I felt ok enough to drive to the restaurant that we were having lunch at.

Lunch was loads of fun.. We sat five of the six (6) little girls at a table mostly to themselves. My SIL and Lee sat with them. My brothers and one of our male cousins (there are 5 boys and 2 girls in the grand kid line up for Nana and Papa) sat at a table that was at the opposite end from the kids and the rest of us (my 2 aunts, uncle, mom, cousin Jen, her daughter, my Nana's niece, her husband,daughter and myself) at the table in between. Lily joined us at one point but then wound up playing with the rest of the kids once they had mostly eaten.

We talked, reminisced about Nana and generally relaxed after the stress of the past couple of days.

Once home I got word of the death of a good friend of mine's mother. I didn't enjoy making the phone call to my mom to let her know since we are friends with the family. That funeral is Monday morning and I hope that I can make an appearance to be supportive to my friend and her very extended family.

I think that I might be turning in early tonight.