Time Passes

So it's been a week since my grandma passed away. I flew to Saskatoon Thursday morning and from the time I landed till late saturday night I had been in go go go mode. I did manage to sneak a bit of me time in there, like seeing my best friend for a little bit, relaxing from the chaos at the dog park with one of my favorite dogs as well as went for a swim with the cousins. Other then that my week was crap. Don't get me wrong I loved seeing my family, it's been a loooong time since we've all been together, but the circumstances could have been better.

Hardest and roughest part of the time in Saskatoon was the viewing. Now I know i'm going the screw up the names of the services and such because my mind was mostly in a numb state and I just went where people told me to go and did what people told me to do. The viewing was thursday night, now I had thought there wasn't going to be a viewing so I was surprised to see the casket there. I was also really upset at the fact that my dad and Chris couldn't be there (they had to work) so it was just my mom and I..... I was thinking 'sure put the two most upset people together without our other halfs to hold us up.' But I have to say we did fairly well and the rest of the family really helped out.

I really hate leaving school or breaking up my schedule though. Last week before I left to Saskatoon was hell. Working with family to get flights booked, rental cars, plans of who has to be where. As well as talking to faculty and trying to keep up with regular work. I also fought with my scanner to copy the pages out of the texts that I needed.

Now that I'm back at school it feels like everything is twice as heavy, thankfully the faculty have helped me out and were able to move my mid term to friday. Yes that helps in the short term but not in the long term, it just backs everything up. I'm going to keep trying to keep my head above water

This is my grandma, Grandma Rose. 

There was a memory board at her funeral. This is one of the pictures on there. My grandma making with me as a small child.

My cousin, Grandma, and me

This is my grandma's locket. Inside is a picture of her and of one of her brothers Rudy. I treasure it

In Saskatoon this was the rental vehicle my om and I shared. It really wasn't that bad... besides the three knobs in centre dash :/

One of the things that ultimately relaxes me is taking a dog for a walk in the off leash dog park. We did just about 3km in just under an hour. I use the program 'My Tracks' to track where we walk. We were all over the place, in and out of the woods, along the frozen river, everywhere!

My youngest second cousin, Brooklyn. She is so adorable!

During family supper I found her trying on people shoes. Her face is priceless.

My mom and I went to the dollar store and picked up some activities for the kids to do during family supper.

One of my cousins, working to get her toy out of the rock

Another cousin working away at his