This is Rick, with his older sister and his Mom (maybe 1970?) - I love this picture!
Well, after 5 weeks of almost constant travel, we're home. My kids are great little travellers, and other than not knowing when they should be awake or asleep, they've done very well.
We'd headed to Utah to say good-bye to Deanna (Rick's Mom), who - bless her heart - had held on for us while we took our trip to Australia. She fought a great battle with cancer, and we we're glad to be able to get out there to see her. We arrived on Friday, and she passed away on Sunday. We stayed for the funeral, which was beautiful, the following Saturday.
If you'd like to see her obituary, it will be available for a few more weeks here. Deanna was an amazing woman, and provided a very high benchmark for me to live up to.
We will all miss her dearly.
3 comments:
That was a lovely obituary. I learned lots of things about Rick's mum that I didn't know. It turns out that she and I did the same degree at the U. I hope you are all doing well - we are thinking of you.
I remember you telling RS about her food storage program in her home- I always remembered that (still not acting on that inspirational info).
She sounds like she had an amazing life and left behind a lot of good.
Catching up on my blog reading... wow, that's amazing! I'm glad you got to say goodbye.
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