Just Catching Up

As you can imagine, it has been a long week. We drove to Chicago in two days, leaving Friday night and driving till 1 in the morning. Then finishing up the drive on Saturday. We got there to lots of cleaning out and fixing of stuff around the house. The funeral took two days. GOD HELP ME. Yes, Roman Catholic (Italian) is not an easy matter like in my family. All went well. I still can't believe how much stuff my sister-in-law had. Just a bit of a shop-o-halic and pack-rat. I'm still trying to cancel all her credit cards. We talked Mom into coming back to Pennsylvania with Jim's brother and us. She's with them now and will be with us at some point. We are trying to convince her that she HAS to move out here. There are many reason for this. The first is that we can't keep running to Chicago. Also there is the money factor. Not sure how much she can afford on her own.

Back here at home, Lauren has mountains of school work to catch up on. Jim is still not himself. Brandon is happy to get back on his routine (more on that later). I feel a real need to clean out my stuff. And Arion just seems grateful to have us all home.