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I'm putting this here, though it isn't really my rant, but my daughter's. She was visiting last night and saw the Nintendo DS my son had in his room. She asks about it, knowing he didn't have one, especially as it was PINK. He tells her it was in the top of his closet when we moved, so he just took it with him. She gets looking and realizes it is my niece's DS. This isn't such a problem, except that my daughter is living with my niece's parents, and that DS was in a case at their house until about a week before we moved.
Did I mention my niece passed away a year ago this past Thursday? Now my daughter is stuck returning the missing DS and trying to explain how it got in her brother's closet. How do you explain that? It wasn't as if we were around the case carrying the DS, and my sister's grandson, other daughter's son, had the game just before it went missing. My son is 19 and the grandson is 2, not ages that interact, and we lived in different towns. How the heck did it get in my son's closet? He even called me in when he found it and asked if I knew anything about it.
We got used to finding fishing line weights around everywhere after my dad died. When we moved my mother the last time we would pack up a drawer, know it was empty, but then find a weight later. Looking back the sheer number of weights that day should have been a clue that Daddy was preparing to welcome my mother the next day. He was letting us know he was around and waiting.
But how to tell her aunt and uncle, still suffering from realizing it has been a year, just floored my niece. I think she had to have her friend drive her home because she was so worried.
She is also upset that Eron, my niece, didn't contact her if she was in the house putting the DS in the closet. Yes, I am talking about after death. She sees dead people, and has for years. But is that something she can tell her aunt? I just don't know.
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