Arrangements

Thanks for the comments, guys. My family and I appreciate all your kind words. Today Chris, Luke, and I headed to Op. to meet up with my family at the funeral home. Grandma had done a pre-need thing so that there wasn't all that much to do. She had already picked out a casket, which Mom showed me and Chris when we got there. That was weird.

The funeral home guy knew my other grandma, who passed away years ago, and details about my Aunt Linda's headstone from 1995! He knows a lot about everyone. That was really interesting to me. Creepy, but interesting.

After meeting with my parents and the funeral home guy about who to include in the obit, we decided on some musical selections for Grandma. The bagpipe "Amazing Grace" was a little too 9/11 firefighters, so we went with a softer, almost country sound. Grandma liked country, she thought country singers were pretty hot.

Chris and I tried to keep eachother "up" in the midst of all this sadness by whispering to eachother what we'd be playing at the other one's funerals.

"I'll be sure to play your favorite band--Dave Matthews." I told Chris. (Sang) "He wakes up in the morning..."
"If you play Dave Matthews, I will haunt you forever."

After that, we followed my parents and Uncle and Aunt to the gravesite, and we watched Mom instruct the gravedigger where to dig. I'm not kidding. This was very unpleasant. Grandma will be buried next to her sons and her mother, who died in the 40s.

Dad wasn't feeling great, so we took him back to Grandma's apartment and Chris, the boy, and I took Mom to eat lunch. This made all of us feel a little better.

We headed back home around three. Visitation is tomorrow night from six to eight at Jeffcoat-Trant. Funeral is at two on Thursday.