Hi Stu and Sindia,
Just sent you a few of the pics I took yesterday - all pretty self-explanatory, but if you need any interpretations just let me know!
Everything went really well. There were many moments of sweet tears - for me when they sang Great is Thy Faithfulness it brought back the recent memory of singing it as Dad went Home....so brought a large lump to my throat and tears!
Steve gave a brief word of thanks at the grave side that also brought him to tears and then many joined him in the tears but otherwise it was primarily a day of rejoicing in a race well won and a fight well fought.
It does seem a bit empty around the house without him, and we all miss his smile which was with him to the very end. Even in his deepest struggles with his broken body - especially in trying to communicate - he would laugh at himself! One particular occasion was just after he had been given a frozen goat from a grateful patient of years back.
He called us into the bathroom urgently to tell us something - I had just finished making some ice cream and he said "I want to (blank) frozen (blank)" but sounded like a Oh sound...so we jumped to the guess that he wanted a "frozen (ice cream) cone".....but he just started laughing and laughing....so we knew it was a wrong guess! Then we finally took out the alphabet page and he spelled out that he wanted to G-I-V-E the F-R-O-Z-E-N G-O-A-T T-O S-T-I-R and D-O-N-N-A as a thank you for their help....
It was very sweet and one of the last good laughs that he enjoyed!
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