Well, I thought this week was going to have promise but it hasn’t happen yet. I did start out good at the gym on Monday, that was plus. So it has been a blah week so far.
I got the call from my mom yesterday about my great-aunt Marie. She was the oldest of my grandma’s siblings and lived the longest…..into her 90s. She went peaceful, so that is a good thing. But she was the last one of that generation on that side of the family and I’ve lost the last living connection to my grandma.  I was named after her mother and she had that name as her middle name. There isn’t many of that family left and the family last name is dead.
I wasn’t that close to her the last few years, but I have a lot of memories of us visiting her in Florida when I was kid. She had a strong personality and loved her irises. =) Now I have another address to remove from my holiday card list. =( I still haven’t removed my other great aunt from that list. I can’t seem to hit delete on it.
I called my mom today and she is handling it much better then I thought she would. She still gets into funks around my grandma’s birthday and losing her sister isn’t a good thing. But like she said, she lived longer then any of the others. =)
We’ve made plans to head up to Canada this weekend. As hubby went to confirm our plans with his brother Diesel, the phone call went very strange. He answered, yup…nope with 30-40sec delays. His wife called about an hour later, D is being admitted to a hospice and they were waiting on an ambulance. The brain tumor has gotten bigger, chemo and surgery is no longer going to help it. =( They have 2 young boys, 7 and 4. =(
Needless to say we have been devastated and not really in the mood to do anything. But I will have to attack my work since we are going to leaving Saturday and won’t be back until Monday evening.
It is a 6hr drive and that is without the wait at the border. That is normally about an hour during off hours with the new requirements of passports in effect, don’t know if it is going to be worst. Many people will walk the gardens at the border and leave a drive in the car in line.