Ah the glorious paternal family reunion. I suppose that's one way to put it. I am totally excited to see the most of that side of the family that I'm ever going to get to see in one place. The last time I saw most of them was when I was in second-grade, and seeing as I'm twenty now that's a pretty long time.

We're all going to a place in Oklahoma so that we can spread my paternal granfather's ashes on a place that he loved. As cool as literally becoming a part of the place you really adored in life is, I really wish, that just for documentation reasons (if nothing else) that he had a headstone erected somewhere close by his home, or in the local cemetary or whatever passes for a cemetary in Texas; I really don't know, it's been so long since I've been there and where he lives is almost a tropical climate zone in comparison to here. It'd be nice for Grandma Bobbie to be able to talk to his gravestone sometimes - I think it'd do her a bit of good. I can only imagine having somebody warm the other side of the bed for so many years and then he's magicially gone. Someone that she loved so very much - the mind boggles.

I am sad for other reasons too though. Grandma Joan is wanting to move to Salt and Sea. That would normally be fine, but I so want my little brothers to have the kind of memories I had when I was a child, and the fact that if this move happens it will be someplace completely different. Not only that, but contrary to popular belief, she does a lot to help out on the farm. She's a pensioner, and she doesn't have a whole lot of money to spare on rent and such things. She's been a real mother to the boys as well, and how anyone can insinuate that she doesn't earn her keep is just ludicrous. That, and it really gets under my skin when members of my family don't speak to each other because of something stupid like this. I know Jules has fibromyalgia, but her mother has been supportive, helpful and dedicated. She's been sick herself and has always found a way to pull through for the love of her family. I don't like that they're wrecking that friendship that they've had over the years on some percieved slight on the part of friends. It's stupid.