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I'm sure that it will be crazy but knowing you, Gayle......you'll end up loving it!!! I'm sure at times that you'll wish for some privacy but you won't have long until they move.
I haven't posted much since Glen's Mom passed away. The family has decided that our house is the "meeting place" so we've had a lot of Glen's family here. Glen's sister, Brenda, has been staying with us since the funeral and I'm not sure when she's going home. Brenda and Mark, Glen's older brother, are co-execudors of Althea's estate. The family has had a LOT of talks about what to do with her stuff and how it will be handled. There are a lot of emotions with everything. The girls want to do things the way their mother wanted things done.....which is just having them go through things.....but the guys just want to get in there and get it done. It looks like....according to the will that Brenda and Dana, Glen's youngest sister, will be the only ones to go in and clean things up and disperse things to the family. Brenda's daughter is getting married this spring so it's not going to be a quick process. Althea lived in a huge two story house that is filled with stuff!! It does look like the kids are going to get some things that they were wanting. I'm happy for that.
The funeral was so hard......not just for me but for my husband and his older brother, Mark. When I first looked into her casket I had some of the worst thoughts come across my mind about Althea......and then to have people come up to me and tell me how sorry they were. I've never felt this way about anyone and I'm ashamed to even admitting that I felt that way. She was loved by so many people but yet my sister-in-law and I never felt that way about her. My husband and his brother have really struggled with the hoarding and the way it affected their family and their Dad. Althea and Frank really didn't get along and the reason behind every arguement was the hoarding. All the things that I heard at the funeral and what was put in the paper were not about the woman that I knew.......some of it was because the boys didn't want to make the girls upset about how they felt about their mother........like I said it's been a hard week.
Glen's leaving to go snow skiing in the morning. Jaci and Nate are going too.....it's with a group from church. I'd go but if you're not skiing it's a long trip out and back.....besides Brenda's here to be with me. I think that Thursday I'm going to KC and pick up a child's hoosier cabinet that I bought on e-bay. I'm soooo excited to get it!!!
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