Today was our last full day of family reunion. Tomorrow we will all meet at the cemetery in the town she lived in where my father was buried. We will have a small ceremony for her. The family from here who has been together for these 4 or 5 days, and a couple other of my brother-in-law’s family who knew my mom well. All three of us girls will say something. I have had mine written out for a week. You known that’s the easy part. Reading it, saying it, will be so much harder. For all my words, I’m not a public speaker but I need to say this, for my mother, and I will get through it somehow.

Today we took a ride up to Skyline Drive in Shenandoah. When I get home I’ll load the pics onto the computer and do a small pictoral blog. It is so incredibly beautiful there. Late last winter they had a big fire, that burned 12,000 acres or so, but even in those places, you see life returning. It is odd, you drive down the road and the trees are scorched on one side but not the other, so I guess they were able to keep it from jumping the road. It had to be incredibly hard to fight. There are no access roads to most of the area that burned. Still…to look across the valleys and mountains, was spectacular.

It’s been a wonderful trip. I feel like I really got close to my nieces and nephews, closer than ever before. I know my son now feels like he has extended family, and I hope he doesn’t let them go. I hope he goes to visit his aunts and uncles and cousins.

Today would have been my mom’s 95^th birthday. In her honor, my niece made all her favorite foods, and we had such a good time together. This trip has been such a blessing. My stomach issue is gone, finally. Confirmation to me that it was all stress, because I have none here.

I head home tomorrow. Not sure how much I’ll get on here. We are leaving early to make the 2 hour drive to the cemetery, and then going to lunch, and then to the airport, where I catch a 5:45 flight back, and with one connection, get back home around midnight. It will be good to get home. Just wish everyone lived closer so we could hang out every weekend.

Love and light.

Picture is from Google Images. I haven’t uploaded my pics yet.