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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

I made it through pretty well. the first part of the service I was pretty much a wreck but then got into an internal dialogue with myself. I told me that it was pretty selfish for me to be carrying on this way as this was to be a celebration of his life and I needed to tell the stories that I wanted to tell. my voice quavered a bit, but I got through it. my son spoke after me and did an absolutely brilliant job.

now we need to figure out the best way to work with my Mom to make her happy. that won't start for two more days as people leave

Well done you (((hugs)))

Originally Posted by phenomshel

I just got off the phone with my daughter - she got married today. But they're in Texas, and we're in Illinois, so I didn't get to be there. She called right before she walked down the aisle and had both of us crying. They just now got home from the reception, evidently her friends there threw a pretty huge barbeque for them. So she called to tell me she loves me and missed me today.

Congrats - but sorry you couldn't be there.


I've discovered my nearest decent town has turned into a very dangerous place.

Two good fabric shops, one decent place for yarn (they also do fabrics, but not a good range), a couple of bookshops, several outdoors shops, a Lakeland, an Apple store, a Paul patisserie/bakery, and - discovered today, a Clahs Olson

Thanks to various of those places I now have a new slow cooker, a couple more kitchen knives (Mora - cheap but very, very good), and some nice patisserie goodness inside And the yeti has a trackpad to use on his laptop when it's connected to the monitor. I managed to resist the lure of both fabrics and yarns (and promptly succumbed when I got home and looked online )