... it pours!

So much has happened in the last few weeks, most of which I do not want to relive in a detailed blog post but I will give a super abbreviated overview of what we have been through recently.

About 5 weeks ago I got a call from Eric’s step Mom Natalie. She said she didn’t want to worry us but the doctors had found a mass on Ken’s (Eric’s father) gallbladder and they thought it might be cancer. I told Natalie I was not worried at all because even if it was cancer it was in his gallbladder and they could just take it out. I remember telling her “Gallbladder cancer would be like winning the cancer lottery”. Natalie thanked me for making her feel better about the situation. 

It was just a few days after my conversation with Natalie that Eric read the scan and told me it was “inoperable and going to take his life”.  I was completely devastated. 

Ken has always been wonderful to me and my girls. I really loved him and couldn’t imagine not having Grandpa Ken around. I spent several days crying when I was at home, so I could keep it together in public. I would try not to think about Ken and think about our move... then I would start crying about all my friends I was loosing at the same time. I would wake up and my eyelids were huge from crying so much.

Jump forward a few weeks and Ken was home from the hospital with hospice care. A few days after he got home Natalie spent several days in the hospital (2 different trips) with what turned out to be a stroke. She is still recovering today.

On June 24th I was just finishing packing up our house so we could move the next day when I received a text message “Dad just passed”.

On the 25th we had to fork out $4,000 for an unexpected expense on our condo. We also had “issues” with the lady that is renting our condo that I don’t want to discuss since Eric was right and I was wrong. I really should have listened to him.

We stayed in our packed up condo waiting for the funeral while our girls were killing each other with no toys, TV ect. Eric wrote his father’s obituary and his talk for the funeral on his Iphone because the computer was packed.

With Natalie in the hospital all the kids were trying to get everything organized for the funeral. You would not have believed the amount of phone calls, text messages and emails we got that week. One night Ruby said “Would you guys please turn off your phones they are making me crazy!”. Even with the pre-funeral crazy, everything went well with at the funeral. 

Check out this picture of Ken from the funeral... can you believe how much Eric looks like his dad? 

The day after the funeral we moved to Oregon.

We are here and about 75% unpacked. We got cable TV yesterday and Eric hooked up our computer tonight so I feel connected with life outside of moving. The house is wonderful, the yard is beautiful and everyone has been so nice to us (Although ... I did have someone come up to me at the 4th of July church breakfast and say “I am trying not to hate you”.) 

I will post about happier things after I finish unpacking.

Fyi- Eric starts his new job tomorrow morning!