And I had to laugh. My dad is always a businessman, likes to wear a suit to this type of occasion. Well, I guess he was waiting for me sitting on a chair on his porch. Guess he hasn't dusted the chair off in a while. When he got in the car I noticed he had a dusty butt. My dad would not like that - he is a very tidy person. So, when we got to the funeral home I had to "dust him off". It was really quite funny. I told him that I was sure he'd done that plenty of times with me after a day at the beach when I was small. He laughed and took it well. Usually he does NOT like anyone else taking care of him.
It is different now without Mom. She always read the obits and informed me who had passed and she always went with dad. Dad doesn't take the paper any more and I rarely get one in the summer. I guess it was meant to be that I read the paper today and learned about Norma.
