It's been a sad week

Overall, this has been a pretty sad week for our family, but everyone is hanging in there.  There has been some improvement with Andrew's brother, and we are grateful.  At the same time, it just seems as though he (and his parents) have suffered so much and to be honest, it's hard to want him to continue living the life he is living.  Aunt Margie passed away Wednesday morning.  We will be going for the visitation tomorrow and then I'll go back up Monday for the funeral.  I was able to make it to my hometown for the visitation of my classmate's father, and yesterday I spent with my family at my great-aunt Pat's funeral.  These great-aunts are both on my Dad's side of the family, so that makes the emotions even tougher as we are less than a month from the two year anniversary of his passing.  Family funerals (and weddings and other gatherings as well) tend to bring out the family drama, as my aunt (and these are her aunts) decided not to attend funerals, and there are hurt feelings over that.  We are also concerned about our cat Wally, as he seems to have developed a cough, and I'm concerned his time may be near as well.  To be honest, I've been praying all week that if it is his time to go, that the good Lord take him so we don't have to make that decision....although there isn't really a decision to be made.  We would never consider keeping him alive to suffer.

All-in-all, it's been a pretty emotional week.  I've been at school all day every day for Wednesday, and Thursday, and of course the rest of our daily/weekly activities have been occurring as well.  It wasn't until I arrived at the funeral yesterday (late of course, because I had to leave a meeting early just to get there when I did) that the enormity of my emotions of the week hit me, and I just began to cry.  I couldn't stop crying for a bit.  I realized in some ways I'd just been too busy to allow myself to be sad about all of it.

There are happy things too.  For instance, Robert runs this afternoon at the cross country district meet.  We know that he and our team are not competing for anything really, but we are proud that Robert has done so well this year!