Sharing the Blessings of Family with my friends here
Hi everyone.....I'd like to share some stuff. Hope that's ok.
So this past weekend, we officially said Goodbye to my Dad. He passed away on February 15, 2006 of Esophageal Cancer. He fought hard and strong for 8 months. In his "5" wishes, he wanted his Memorial Service to be in the summer so people could travel more with ease. (Winters in Michigan can be brutal as we all know!)
I also later learned that the date July 8th, was the anniversary of when he and my Mom kissed for the first time. (He was my stepfather, but the only father I ever knew).
The Memorial Service was perfect. I was brough a plate of food specially made for me without my knowledge of turkey roll ups, cheese and roast beef roll ups, along with a piece of low carb cheesecake. This not to anyone's knowledge - done by the woman in charge who knew I had WLS and wanted to make my eating a nice experience since they were having ham and salads high in fats, calories, etc. I sent her a Thank You card and was in tears-- I thought it was SO considerate and thoughtful. Mom had told her I had the surgery.
Later in the weekend and days to follow I spent an enormous amount of time with my family. My middle sister Jan, her husband Ed, my nephew Grayson (by the way, did I mention he is MOST HANDSOME???) and my two nieces- Alex and Lauren, and my eldest sister, Virginia. We were on the lake, in the pool, playing pool and foosball, eating food, sitting at bonfires, I even ATE ONE S'MORE!!! and shot BB guns at targets, and bonded.
At Dad's passing, I had not seen Jan my middle sister in over 30 years.
I had not seen the twins (Lauren and Grayson are twins though not indentical)
Nor Alex, now 19, I saw her at 7 years old last.
I had never met my brother in law, Ed.
It was like being with family that most people get to enjoy all the time in their lives -- but my sister and the kids reside way out west in Oregon.
I feel loved, moved and complete. I received numerous praises on my weightloss,
my life, my hair (PEOPLE LOVED MY HAIR--DID I MENTION I BOUGHT A SET OF COMBS AT SALLY BEAUTY SALON THAT MADE IT LOOK LIKE I HAD A PONY TAIL???)
I am just filled with oodles of blessings and feel so wonderful I wanted to let you know.
There are two places to view my photos:
my personal wesbite has a few:
www.geocities.com/laurelie36
OR you can see the whole lot at this URL:
www.flickr.com/photos/weshu-photos/sets/
(you need to copy and paste the entire link above (flickr)
to view the page...for some reason, it won't let me put the entire URL-sorry for the inconveniece)
The one right above, will show you also photos of the display at the Memorial Service and the Urn at the Altar, family photos of us all after the service, and all the fun we had.
I just want to say thanks to all of you for letting me not only share this, but for being my support system and I brought this website into my family's life and home this weekend and showed them many of your profiles!!!!
All they could say was WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stacey
Stacey 
Awww. Stacy I know that was hard to say that final goodbye. Thank you for sharing that with us all. I truly know ,"Blessings of Family" is so wonderful. I too had to do what you did...my mom passed away in Feb '01 and she lived up north in UP. So you know the grounds are frozen. We did a memorial service in May for her, but tragically enough it was 3 weeks after we said goodbye to my oldest sister, on April 11, 2001. Only 7 weeks after my mom passed. My grandmother had also passed on New Years Eve a few months before. Was a bad year for me. But with family around we were all able to cope. If it was't for the family not sure how I would have handled it. We have all come closer since my other sister passed away suddenly i***** It's ashame it takes a tragedy to become closer, I try to get that across to many of my friend that bicker with their siblings and parents.
God Bless!
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