There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle......
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
~Albert Einstein~

ONE LAST ROAD TRIP

Posted by DEBRA at 9:37 AM



Saying good-bye.......
Gary and Carol and 2 of their kids and grand-kids......


Jamie and Maya and Denaye and Sam at Jamie's.
My dad died 8 years ago and he was cremated......my dad had never specified what we had wanted done once he was gone. We as a family had come up with different ideas of what to do, but nothing ever seemed to fit until now. My dad's parents final resting place is in a cemetary in Calgary and so we asked permission if we could bury my dad's ashes with his parents......my dad's family was important to him and this felt like the right thing to do. So on the weekend we packed up and took Dad on one last road trip. Sam was only 14 months old when he died so there is not any memories of him and Maya and Denaye have never met him......only in picutres. Sam and Maya both felt they wanted to write a letter to their Grandpa and bury it with him. It felt right and good to bring closure to this journey....it took us some time to get here, but we made it.
We later went over to my brother Jamie and Heather's place for a family BBQ.
We laughed about the memories we had of our Dad and it brought a few tears to our eyes and it was a neat experience for the kids....it was not formal at all......we just simply said good-bye.

 

2 Comments:

  1. hazel said...
    July 20, 2009 at 3:26 PM  
    I'll bet your Dad would have loved that.
    Jam99 said...
    July 21, 2009 at 3:19 PM  
    Nice...day turned out great for everyone...Especially dad :)

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