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cellboy1. Before going to the Eagle Bust today, I made a quick stop at Safeway picked up some flowers, and drove down to Alta Mesa Cemetery in Palo Alto, to place flowers on my moms niche for Mothers Day
2. It was a beautiful ride down. The place was very busy. I initially never quite understood the idea of seeing families picnicking on graves in a cemetery. But after some thought, why not?
3. My mom and dad are side by side, in a niche, so of course the visit is for two of them.
4. I thought about both of them, their faults, and their strengths, and thought how lucky I was to have such wonderful parents. Parents who were not my natural parents, but adoptive parents.
5. And I suddenly remembered talking with my mom maybe a year before she died, telling her how proud I was of her, and all she had done. How well she managed all those years after dad died
6. Her eyes welled up with tears, and thanked me (I was never one to be that expressive at times, with my mom. And I think I shocked her. In a good way. And she really needed to hear that. I'm glad I told her.
7. My next stop not too far away was to my late partner's grave. Again reminiscing.
8. It was not a sad visit. But an uplifting visit. It was a great way to start my afternoon :)
2. It was a beautiful ride down. The place was very busy. I initially never quite understood the idea of seeing families picnicking on graves in a cemetery. But after some thought, why not?
3. My mom and dad are side by side, in a niche, so of course the visit is for two of them.
4. I thought about both of them, their faults, and their strengths, and thought how lucky I was to have such wonderful parents. Parents who were not my natural parents, but adoptive parents.
5. And I suddenly remembered talking with my mom maybe a year before she died, telling her how proud I was of her, and all she had done. How well she managed all those years after dad died
6. Her eyes welled up with tears, and thanked me (I was never one to be that expressive at times, with my mom. And I think I shocked her. In a good way. And she really needed to hear that. I'm glad I told her.
7. My next stop not too far away was to my late partner's grave. Again reminiscing.
8. It was not a sad visit. But an uplifting visit. It was a great way to start my afternoon :)
