Memorial Weekend

Whew! It has been a whirlwind weekend. I feel like I've been in a blender. It was a sweet and playful weekend.....though hectic. My family - brothers, spouses, their young adult children all came to town. We placed our parents urns into a cemetery wall. There were some tears but the weekend wasn't a sad occasion overall. Our parents specifically did not want funerals. We, as their children needed something and I think in our informal and unique ways a healing event occurred. Of course I can only speak for myself.

We did lots of group photos - having us all in one place is a BIG occasion! And we also looked through old photos and memorabilia. We looked at my Dad's photos and "stuff" from when he served in WWII. My brother was in Vietnam. We never could get my Dad to talk about the war and I had not heard much from my brother either. There was something incredibly special about being able to look at this stuff with my brother on Memorial Weekend.
Our hope is that we will make a reunion type of meeting a more frequent event in the future.


Before the weekend began my sister and I took a quick trip to the Albuquerque Fiber Arts Fiesta. That was a lot of fun. A knitters group was doing a fund raiser for the S.A.F.E. house. I took a picture of their VW bug car cozy! Patched together from fiber artists' handwork submissions.

I love the headlight covers

And the license plate

Inside the fiesta we got to see some amazing quilts, weavings, bead work, dolls, and more.


Somewhere in amongst the preparations for the weekend I had a quiet moment to take the Sunday Scribble topic "simple" and merge it with my thoughts. If you didn't see it through the Sunday Scribble links you can find it here. And if you saw it - I fixed the typo that was posted all weekend - oops! thanks k