So Sad

I haven't posted in a while. It has been a very sad week for me. We took my Gramps to the hospital on September 23 and the doctor talked with us about Hospice care. Last Monday I got a call that he was having a bad day and my Grams decided that it was time for Hospice. We got him transferred to the Inpatient Unit of the Hospice on Tuesday afternoon. In the inpatient unit they assess his situation and decide what he needs for a peaceful transition at home.

On Wednesday morning, October 1, at 3:44 a.m., I got a call from the nurse at Hospice that Gramps had passed away.

This has been a difficult week but we are getting through. We had Gramps' funeral service on Friday and it was beautiful. We wanted it to be uplifting and reflective of the kind of person Gramps was. I think we succeeded. My dad, brother and I talked about Gramps and the prayer chapel that we held the service in was beautiful and peaceful. It is still hard to think about Gramps without a few tears, but I am so happy that he is in a better place where he can move and do things without being short of breath and in pain.

Here are some of the pictures we used in our video tribute during Gramps' service:

This is a picture of Grams and Gramps in their "younger years".

Gramps and me . . . don't you love our matching overalls?

One of the only recent pictures that we found of me with Gramps. This is from Christmas 2006.

Gramps, Haley, Jared, and Kameryn

February 2008, at Denny's on the way to his last cruise. Gramps' health really started to go down about a month after this picture.

I love you Gramps!

It's The Simple Things

It doesn't take much to amuse me. I just learned how to get new, free, cute templates for my blog. It was so easy! Now I kind of feel like a scrapbooker. Just wait till we get back from our cruise next month and I add a slideshow, too!

I think this one is pretty. There were something like 375 free templates to choose from so I may change backgrounds everytime I post. That alone will make you want to check back in on a daily basis!

Now, for a quick update:

• I had Kelly, Angela & Addison, and Kimberly & Hayden over for dinner last night. We had such a good time. It was nice to have the "Liberty Ladies" together again--we don't do it nearly often enough. And, if I do say so myself, the peach crisp I made was pretty kick-ass.
• Our school carnival is tomorrow. I know, on a Saturday! I am trying to be positive about the whole thing but it is going to be so HOT.
• I am so proud of myself because I am going to give up sleeping in tomorrow morning (at least by my definition of sleeping in) to go to my class at the gym at 8:00 a.m. Liz won't be there on Monday so this is a make-up class before the fact. If I could just stop eating so much crap, I would probably be in pretty good shape by now. But I love brownies, nachos, bread, pasta, food in general.
• We split classes today. I now have only 18 students! But saying good-bye to a couple of them was as hard as the last day of school--even though I will still see them everyday.
• I need to learn not to hit "something" on my laptop while I am typing. I keep wiping out entire paragraphs. I don't know what it is, but it is frustrating to keep starting over.
• Gramps finished his first week of chemo and all is well. He gets the weekend off.

That wasn't really a quick update. Off to warm up leftovers--you probably all wish you could live this glamorous, single life that I have.

If you have no plans tomorrow you can always join us at the carnival. We'll have nachos!