decoration day

last sunday was decoration day at the cemetary my daddy, grandparents, great-grandparents, and uncle are buried.
i went the thursday before that and placed flowers on the headstones.
as you can tell by the pictures, the groundskeepers need a lesson in the fine art of weedeating. the pics were taken after i had plucked the largest weeds by hand.

daddys headstone was custom made. i sketched what i wanted on the front and the back on a sheet of paper (with little dots and the word squirell beside them, etc), and it was made. the scenes are of daddys favorite things.
my children were with me, as well as lacee's friend carli.
the girls were cautious not to step on any bodies, and mark anthony wanted to sit on top of daddys headstone.
i never knew my great grandparents, or my grandfather.
i miss my grandmother, my uncle, and my daddy terribly. i have said it many times before and i am sure i will say it many times again, i wish they were here to see my children, my husband, to share my life now with them.
at work the other day pat was saying that someone had told her it would not be heaven for them if children were running everywhere. she countered that heaven for her would be sitting in a rocking chair, rocking with a sleeping baby in her arms.
heaven for me would be having everyone i love together, those that are alive and those that have gone before. all of us, together, laying, playing, relaxing.....