Judy, I'm so glad you had that kind of relationship with your step-mother when your father passed! My parents have a will, and they redid them last year. My dad asked me while we were out fishing one day if I would be the executor, since I'm better at that kind of thing than my brother is. I said I would for sure. He said the last ones they had made up still listed my grandma and grandpa to take my brother and I in if anything happened to them... my grandpa passed away 17 years ago!
My grandma had ordered a new clock and dining room table and while my dad was in this week we went to pick them up. Only the stand at the bottom of the dining room table had come in
So we went to look at some stores and my grandma said if it didn't come in the next day she would send everything back and just buy a table somewhere else. In her words: "I'm too old to be patient!"
She was also looking for some bowls for the kitchen because all the bowls in her house were from her husband. She had taken all of hers out to the cabin and just left them there when she sold it. She didn't find any that day but I'm sure she will.
The boat is being picked up today or tomorrow, I'm not sure which. So my dad also ordered a new motor for our old boat that doesn't run so we won't be out of a boat for a year. I didn't know a motor would be so expensive
But at least we'll have a reliable motor and it has enough power for tubing, wakeboarding, etc.
Life is going to be normal again! This was just a bump in the road.