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third day off It's quarter after nine in the morning and the sun is shining. From looking out the window, I am guessing that it should be a good day despite the cool temperature and that would be nice, because the past two days have been stressful and the cause wasn't work or school. Friday morning I got a call from my parents telling me that my father's mother had died. It was not something that we had expected. I can't and won't try to sum up her life, but I will say that she led an interesting one and left a legacy of six children and I don't know how many grandchildren. As they say her passing was quick so we don't think that she suffered much, but death is never easy to accept. Looking at it from another angle, she hadn't been the same since her husband died and in some ways this may be better for her. The woman was very lonely without her husband and her children couldn't seem to fill the role that he played in her life. Yesterday the family got together to tell stories and be thankful for having everyone else still with us. It was a nice time even though the circumstances for being there could have been better. There wasn't a formal funeral. My grandma didn't want to have one and the family respected her wishes. Instead of standing around in formal clothes looking at a coffin, we sat around joking and eating food for most of the afternoon. ... I'd gone to sleep at two thirty in the morning and did not sleep well. Maybe due to the recent events in my life there was one bad dream after another or to be more precise I kept falling back asleep into the same bad dream. That was not something that I wanted to happen. |