It was a long hard week here. Ramy's father passed away last Sunday night. Friday evening was the viewing and rosary service for Ramy's dad, and then the funeral and burial were yesterday. All of the services were at our church, and Deacon Pat did a wonderful version of the rosary and Father Pat did a beautiful funeral service. After the burial yesterday, there was a reception at Ramy's sister Gina's house. The weather was beautiful, and Rebecca behaved wonderfully. She handled the whole situation incredibly well, despite being around so many unfamiliar people and in a lot of sit-still-and-be-quiet situations! She seems to understand what happened fairly well. We've had several talks about Grandpa going to heaven, and she knew that people at the funeral would be sad because we're going to miss him but that he is happy in heaven and not sick anymore. She wanted to say bye-bye to him, and she waved at him and did fine.
Ramy gave a eulogy at the funeral, and it was so eloquent. He spoke about Fred's diligence as a father (to hear Ramy talk, he was a shiftless punk kid who wasn't interested in school) and how his dad was his role model. He included the poem that I've posted before, which was a wall hanging that his dad had for many years. I know I'm a bit biased, but it really was one of the best tributes I've ever heard. Why won't he let me see him in trial???
I worked all week, except for Wednesday, since it was Veteran's Day. I have so much work going on right now, and I've only got four more weeks at my current clinic. I've also been trying to work on my dissertation stats analyses and was trying to get all my data consolidated into one spreadsheet, code the data appropriately, and then do all the reverse coding that needed to be done before I can run the stats. Ramy was off and making arrangements (he had Wednesday off for the holiday and Friday was his day off anyway). On Wednesday, our new housekeeper came for the first time and cleaned our house from top to bottom. Actually, she brought a helper, and the two of them worked from 9 a.m. until almost 4 p.m. I'm loving it! She'll be coming every other week for the time being. It's so great!
In addition to all of that going on, our computer decided this week that it would take the opportunity to bite it. It had gone out a few days before, but I thought I had fixed it. Unfortunately not, because on Tuesday, it couldn't bring itself out of sleep mode and wouldn't start up. Fortunately, we were able to get it fixed and back to us on Friday with a brand new hard drive. Of course, that necessitated the reloading of all of our programs and files (fortunately we had backup) and a frantic search for a product key for Office 2007.
Today, we've just had a really nice day. We slept in, ate breakfast at home, read the newspaper... Then we went to Costco and the library and the park. Tonight, we'll be going to the first night of the novena for Ramy's dad, which is a Filipino tradition. Tomorrow, we'll be back to our regular routine, but not for long, because Grammy is coming soon for a long Thanksgiving visit.
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