Hi guys, thanks for the kind words, really means a lot.
Just talked with my dad again, and being as it's Alaska, it's too late in the year for burials.
She's going to be buried up in Fairbanks, which is about 100 miles south of the Arctic Circle, but the ground is already frozen solid & deep.
So they'll be holding a memorial service for her at their church on Friday, and then a funeral memorial service when she's buried in March or April when the ground has thawed enough.
So I'm staying Oregon until then, unless something happens to my dad.
I've been crying off & on all day, but am getting a handle on it.
So is my dad. Well, he's putting on a good front, anyways.
We had 7 or 8 years to "prepare" for this day, but it doesn't make it any easier.
But she doesn't have to struggle with any of it anymore.
Now is the time we work on getting over feeling sorry for ourselves.
Life.
Is.
Beautiful.