We arrived home about 6 pm last night. There was rain and slow traffic in Texas, so that took some extra time. We left Falls City at 4:30 am - Todd decided we could sleep in until 3:30 am. lol
Today I'll be busy. I already have laundry going. I need to get groceries and Tab and I are going to do some errands for her wedding. I told her I'd pay for her bouquet, so we'll find that today. I also need to go through all of our mail and start cleaning the house. I offered our house for the wedding reception on Wednesday.
I did bring a bunch of Nel's clothes home so I can make lap quilts with them. I'll make one for each of our four girls, one for Larry (Todd's Dad) and one for us. She wore a lot of sweatshirts, so I have a bunch of those and I'll use those for the middle of the quilts, then build around them with her old jeans and other shirts. I'm not sure I'll have enough of her clothes, but I have a whole box full of our old jeans, so I can also use them. I'll have to buy the batting and I think I'll use flannel for the back.
I think this week will be busy, so I'll have to hit the job-hunting hard next week. Wish me luck!!!
Jyl
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Monday, October 12, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Saturday evening....
and we made it back to Falls City. Tomorrow morning (early - 3:00 am) we are FINALLY heading back to Texas!!!! It's been a long and emotional week and a half. Monday of this week we had the memorial service for my Mother-In-Law, Nel.
The funeral home had someone make a slide-show of various pictures of her throughout her life and it was very nice. We are taking a DVD of it home to keep, along with our urn with some of her ashes in it (the rest are with Todd's dad and his brother). One of Todd's friends from high school and his wife stopped by the funeral home during the family visitation. They are our age and have a 11 year-old daughter who is already taller than her mom. Reminded me of Tab, I think she was 10 when she was my height.
Todd's dad and Grandma at the visitation:
Todd and Kate reading the list of visitors at the funeral home - there were already four pages full before we got there at 6 on Sunday.
The ladies of the church had a nice lunch after the Memorial Service on Monday.
Tuesday was a pretty quiet day, Todd's brother and family left to go home and get ready for the wedding. Wednesday Todd and I went to Milford to visit with my parents for a little. We went to lunch at the Seward Country Club, then back to the farm to visit and play dominoes. Wednesday was also the day that Megan, Kate and McKenna left. Thursday and Friday were quiet days again, just a few errands, but not too bad. Today, Saturday, we got up early and left at 8:00 am to head to Kansas City for the wedding.
That was fun and they lit a candle before the service with our family for Nel, and it was placed in the sanctuary during the service. That brought on more tears from the family so lots of us had to re-apply makeup.
McKenna had fun playing after the wedding and Todd and I both enjoyed spending time with all of them again.
She's getting so big!
We left KC about 3:45 to head to Falls City since we left the dogs here. We saw some really cool clouds!
And some neat other sites:
Tomorrow we drive HOME!!!!
The funeral home had someone make a slide-show of various pictures of her throughout her life and it was very nice. We are taking a DVD of it home to keep, along with our urn with some of her ashes in it (the rest are with Todd's dad and his brother). One of Todd's friends from high school and his wife stopped by the funeral home during the family visitation. They are our age and have a 11 year-old daughter who is already taller than her mom. Reminded me of Tab, I think she was 10 when she was my height.
Todd's dad and Grandma at the visitation:
Todd and Kate reading the list of visitors at the funeral home - there were already four pages full before we got there at 6 on Sunday.
The ladies of the church had a nice lunch after the Memorial Service on Monday.
Tuesday was a pretty quiet day, Todd's brother and family left to go home and get ready for the wedding. Wednesday Todd and I went to Milford to visit with my parents for a little. We went to lunch at the Seward Country Club, then back to the farm to visit and play dominoes. Wednesday was also the day that Megan, Kate and McKenna left. Thursday and Friday were quiet days again, just a few errands, but not too bad. Today, Saturday, we got up early and left at 8:00 am to head to Kansas City for the wedding.
That was fun and they lit a candle before the service with our family for Nel, and it was placed in the sanctuary during the service. That brought on more tears from the family so lots of us had to re-apply makeup.
McKenna had fun playing after the wedding and Todd and I both enjoyed spending time with all of them again.
She's getting so big!
We left KC about 3:45 to head to Falls City since we left the dogs here. We saw some really cool clouds!
And some neat other sites:
Tomorrow we drive HOME!!!!
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