Sunday May 13, 2007

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I love my mommy

So last night I finally got to pick up this little guy:


And let me just say, I've not seen him this happy in AGES!!! Seriously, he got so excited when I brought him out of the apartment and he got his little car ride. He loves car rides so much he was looking up at the moon roof and wagging his tail. He was so affectionate, too and just seemed more relaxed... I think he got nervous around Joe when he was drinking.

Speaking of last night, guess who called me SOBER to hang out. I declined, but still dead sober sad that I hadn't come out tonight (last night he'd talked about where he was going tonight, apparently he was hoping I'd show up).

The reason why I didn't want to was I was going to have to have breakfast with my superamazing mommy at the HoDo (our local super nice restaurant). The brunch was so super nummy I had this pastry thing topped with eggs scrambled with AMAZING mushrooms and asparagus (SO good), mommy had Crab tomato benedict which I got to try and was also amazing. She loved her mother's day gifts.


My mommy and me after breakfast (not how damned tired I look after getting woken up way too many times... I had really weird dreams when I did sleep, too. I think I dreamt that I was an SG, but didn't remember becoming one so I just showed up at my profile one day and suddenly had "sets" up...... then my entire extended family was behind me looking at the sets and I was like "Ok, I am totally dreaming right now." And then they insisted I go to a baby shower, which I think was mine... this is really only part of it.... seriously.... tongue

Then we went to the cemetary after breakfast to give flowers to Tammy, Grandpa and Grandma. I took photos, but I'm going to spoil them since this is already quite long...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)


I bought faux Gerber Daises for the graves. Just cause before I was so allergic that I couldn't go near flowers they were always my favorite. Even after that though, when my grandma was dying, I'd still bring her flowers sometimes, but I'd have to get them wrapped rediculously well and I'd still usually break out a bit. frown


This right here is the reason I live in Fargo. When Tammy died leaving her two girls behind, I moved up to Fargo to be closer to them. Help them with homework and stuff. If you read my journals though regularily, I'm sure you already knew that, so sorry... I'll explain the pennies in a second.


My grandpa and grandma. When my aunt past our family said everytime we found a penny heads up it was Tammy saying hi. When my grandpa and grandma passed it was all the pennies heads down that they took on. Now when we go out, we've started leaving a penny each time to show we care and are thinking of them.


You can tell how many seasons they've been out there by the amount of discoloration they have. They are all over the graves, on top of them, but a lot of them have fallen into the grass around them. Here's a few on top. We haven't gotten the fresh baskets out for Tammy's grave yet.


My grandpa's WWII stone. I love how the shadow caught here. My grandpa got a tattoo during the war that he spent the rest of his life being ashamed of. My mom reminds me of this all the time. She's terrified that I'm going to be like grandpa and learn to hate my tat. He got it on whim... I thought mine out a lot.... I'm really not worried. tongue


Look at all the stuff left there already this year!!! This is my third visit to the graves already this summer... I usually only leave pennies when I go though, but still it's already getting out of hand... it's good though. We're a close family and it shows.



That's about it. Awesome day! I'm super tired, but still really happy so it's all good.

Rizzy

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veeyenenwhy:
I'm going to be nosey so I'm going to ask; are you divorced? Is Brad your ex-husband?

I had a pretty decent Mother's Day with my mom, thank you.

I was going to ask how yours went but the blog pretty much says it all.

I love your blogs! I love the story about the significance of the pennies. That is such a cool thing! I remember reading in the first Death graphic novel ( I don't know if you read Sandman- that's just the geek in me) about putting pennies over someones eyes to pay the toll to crossover or something. But I like your penny story better! biggrin
veeyenenwhy:
So how long were you two married?

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