Lots Going On

What is happening? 
I am back in the office, getting caught up, trying to finish a project that is months behind, pulling together the details on a national conference for the end of October, writing materials for said conference, writing materials for a conference in November in California (with a stop in Phoenix on the way out there.)  

I am headed back to Florida later this month, the trip is on my calendar as "check on dad," it is actually going to be get the house on the market, transfer the car to my brother, and chase loose ends. 

I am headed to Florida again a couple of weeks after that.  I have hired an estate sale firm to clean out and sell the contents of the house, anything the four of us kids want, we have to have out of the house by September 3rd, they sell everything that is not nailed down.  I am flying in for the last day of the sale and the clean up that follows.  

I have made plans for early October, we are going to Michigan for graveside services and internment of Mom and Dad.  

I am starting to sort through the complicated parts of settling the estate, I succeeded at getting a bank account opened in the name of the estate.  Now to run the gauntlet of stock registry services.  

I am taking a little time along the way to work through the loss. I thought that dad's death would be harder than mom, both of them in less than six months - well is it harder than I expected. My differed mourning for mom, is now stacked with dad. Acknowledging that is a good sign. 

What's happening in your world?