Long week...

Oy.

What a long, difficult week.

Monday, we lost Papa.

Tuesday we ran around town finding new dress clothes for the boys. Both for the funeral & for Easter.

Wednesday my husband had to head down to central California for work.

Thursday the kids & I packed up & headed down to California. We were lucky with the weather. It stayed clear for most of our trip.

We checked into a motel & waited for my hubby to get back from his meetings.

He made it to the motel about 1am.

Friday morning was the service. It was at 10am at their church.

It was pouring.

The service was very nice. They had a slide show & music. My husband read some scripture & shared memories of Papa.

Many of Papa's friends & co-workers shared stories & memories of him

My husband & the other grandsons were pallbearers. They all looked so handsome in their suits.

The graveside service was an hour away in the mountain town where they had lived for 30 years.

As we started the drive it was pouring, pouring, pouring.

The further we went up the mountain the worse it got.

Soon it was snowing, snowing, snowing.

We saw a truck upside down on the side of the road.

We saw 2 more banged up & in snow banks.

At the cemetery it was cold & windy & snowing.

The service was short because of that. Poor Grandma was so cold she was shivering.

We headed back down the mountain to the family wake at Grandma's house.

It was still snowing, snowing, snowing.

We actually witnessed 3 wrecks on the way.

We finally headed home early that evening, in seperate cars.

Thankfully the weather had eased off a bit.

We made it home around midnight Friday.

We headed back down to California Saturday night so we could take Grandma to church Easter morning.

We knew if we didn't go, she wouldn't go. So we went.

We got to a motel around midnight.

Sunday morning we picked up Grandma & took her to church. Poor Grandma, It was really hard on her.

The Easter service was nice. Beautiful music.

After church we went back to Grandma's house & a bunch of the family came for lunch.

We finally headed home in the afternoon.

The weather was awful. It took us an extra hour to get home because of all the snow.

But we made it. And I am glad we could be there for Grandma.

All the kids are fighting colds. Too much stress & too much travel.

I'm hoping for a quiet week. My husband has to travel back to the California coast this week & then fly out to Houston early Sunday.

He will be gone for a solid week .

I will be glad when we can get back to a routine

A boring, calm, steady routine.

Blessings.