Red Pencil Diaries

On Friday, while we were in Florida on spring break with the kids, my sister called. My mamaw died at 11:30 that morning. We drove home on Saturday morning and spent this evening (Sunday) at the visitation. I felt sad on the trip to the funeral home, but once there, family started sharing old stories and the mood lightened a bit. Mamaw lived a nice, long, full life. Her 96 years must have seen many changes and amazing advancements. Tomorrow is the funeral. I feel better now knowing she no longer suffers. And the family has come to peace. Everyone got along today and it was actually nice to be surrounded by everyone I hadn't seen in awhile, even on such a sad occasion.

Things have turned around in the past few months. I feel grateful and thankful for so many things in my life. Recently, though, my mamaw (mom's mom) was put into hospice and given only a few days to live. She's hung on for over a week now. It's so sad to see someone go in this way. On top of it, we had our vacation planned and paid for and so we had to go. Mom and Dad were supposed to come with us, but stayed back instead, of course. Has made for a bit of a blah vacation. I can't get truly excited about it. But trying not to feel guilty. Just don't want my mamaw to suffer. And want my family to have peace.

Just hope things get back to good once we return home... Finger's crossed.