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My grandfather's funeral has been set for Wednesday morning, with the wake/visitation scheduled for Tuesday evening. Needless to say, the Memphis trip is off for now; whether it has been postponed or canceled altogether is yet to be seen.
Radar and I are picking Mom up and setting out for P--h----- tomorrow morning, since Mom needs to deliver Grandpa's suit and dentures to the funeral home before they close. DW, Radar's mom, is arriving tonight to stay with TallKid while we're gone. We could take him with us - he's been to a funeral before, two+ years ago, when my other grandfather passed - but I have the feeling that the events of this coming week are not something he needs to see.
There is some additional good and bad to be dealt with on this trip. Grandpa's will stipulates that the proceeds from the sale of the P--h----- house will go into the Special Needs Trust he had set up for Mom. The good news is that Preacher Uncle has found someone to purchase the house. The bad news is that we need to have the house cleaned out by next weekend so they can move in. So after the funeral will come 2 - 3 days of clearing the remaining stuff out and dividing it up between Mom and the uncles. My uncles, coincidentally, have said that they don't really want much of anything - they want me and Radar to rent a U-Haul and load it all up and bring it down and put it all in the house that we're moving Mom into next month.
This does not me happy make.
I've already warned Radar that it's entirely likely that at least once in the coming week he will hear me tell one or both of my uncles "When you start contributing to Mom's upkeep, you get a say in how it's done." He doesn't think that would necessarily be a bad thing. All I know is that thinking about dealing with all this stuff has my stomach in knots. I just can't wait for it to all be done.
Radar and I are picking Mom up and setting out for P--h----- tomorrow morning, since Mom needs to deliver Grandpa's suit and dentures to the funeral home before they close. DW, Radar's mom, is arriving tonight to stay with TallKid while we're gone. We could take him with us - he's been to a funeral before, two+ years ago, when my other grandfather passed - but I have the feeling that the events of this coming week are not something he needs to see.
There is some additional good and bad to be dealt with on this trip. Grandpa's will stipulates that the proceeds from the sale of the P--h----- house will go into the Special Needs Trust he had set up for Mom. The good news is that Preacher Uncle has found someone to purchase the house. The bad news is that we need to have the house cleaned out by next weekend so they can move in. So after the funeral will come 2 - 3 days of clearing the remaining stuff out and dividing it up between Mom and the uncles. My uncles, coincidentally, have said that they don't really want much of anything - they want me and Radar to rent a U-Haul and load it all up and bring it down and put it all in the house that we're moving Mom into next month.
This does not me happy make.
I've already warned Radar that it's entirely likely that at least once in the coming week he will hear me tell one or both of my uncles "When you start contributing to Mom's upkeep, you get a say in how it's done." He doesn't think that would necessarily be a bad thing. All I know is that thinking about dealing with all this stuff has my stomach in knots. I just can't wait for it to all be done.