See, I knew that would get your attention! I was supposed to go to a Chocolate festival this past weekend. Well, to be honest, my very first plans for this weekend was to fly to Vegas! But those plans feel through too.
Back to the chocolate festival…… There was a chocolate festival in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday. I love Rehoboth! It is such a nice beach town and they added chocolate into the mix. Oh Yummy!!! However, I was needed elsewhere this weekend.
A good friend from high school lost his wife recently and the memorial service was on Saturday. His wife was a good friend, also. I went to elementary and high school with her. She died from breast cancer but not before she put in a good fight against this horrible disease.
Deb and Wally are high school sweethearts. They lived a lovely life together, traveling and making a family. They have 2 beautiful daughters and by the many, many pictures around the home, have a wonderful life with each other too.
Wally stood by Deb through everything. All the diagnosis', the horror of the treatments, all the way to finally saying good-bye to the love of his life, Wally was there. He was there with his love, support, and sense of humor. Just as he will be there for his daughters.
My bestest friend in the whole wide world called to ask me to go with her. I figured it would be a great chance to spend time with Kim. We just don’t get enough time together without jobs, kids and significant others around. But that is just life, we have accepted it and make time for each other as we can. I was looking forward to a 6 hour round trip car ride to gossip with Kim. On the Friday before we were to leave, I got a phone call from Linda, another friend from high school. She heard that we were going to the memorial service and wanted a ride with us, if possible. I told Linda, I would call her when Kim was picking me up and we would then pick her up.
The three of us haven’t been together since the late 80’s before we graduated from high school so of course there was lots of gossip to get caught up on. It was a great car ride that just flew by because of all the memories and news to share.
We arrived at the funeral home. As soon as we walked into the room, Wally was up front motioning us forward. After being enveloped in a huge hug from Wally, we found seats and cried through the service. It was a beautiful service that allowed for us to share our grief and start the healing process of loosing Deb.
After the service we went back to her parents home to be with Wally and found Daryl, Wally’s best friend from high school. Talk about a reunion! More memories and more news! It was wonderful to see Daryl and to know that he is happy.
After being at her parents house, we went back to Wally’s. After not seeing him and Daryl for so long, we really didn’t want to loose them again. We ended up play Wii and drinking the night away. We continued sharing news of our lives, hugs, and memories of high school. There were some tears mixed in too. Healing tears though. We finally went to bed, only because Daryl and Wally needed to get up in the morning to be at the airport for Daryl’s flight home.
In the morning, we all said good-bye with yet more hugs and promised to not loose touch again. While Deb’s death may have rekindled lost friendships, we cannot wait for another of our group to die to reconnect. We are not going to loose each other again. But we are going to Just Go Home, for Deb.
Back to the hugs. I haven’t been hugged SO much in YEARS!! I have forgotten how wonderful touching another human being can be. Every chance Wally had, he went around getting more hugs, not just from the women, but ANYONE who was near. It was funny and lovely.
I will NOT loose contact with these people again. Life is too precious.
Back to the chocolate festival…… There was a chocolate festival in Rehoboth Beach on Saturday. I love Rehoboth! It is such a nice beach town and they added chocolate into the mix. Oh Yummy!!! However, I was needed elsewhere this weekend.
A good friend from high school lost his wife recently and the memorial service was on Saturday. His wife was a good friend, also. I went to elementary and high school with her. She died from breast cancer but not before she put in a good fight against this horrible disease.
Deb and Wally are high school sweethearts. They lived a lovely life together, traveling and making a family. They have 2 beautiful daughters and by the many, many pictures around the home, have a wonderful life with each other too.
Wally stood by Deb through everything. All the diagnosis', the horror of the treatments, all the way to finally saying good-bye to the love of his life, Wally was there. He was there with his love, support, and sense of humor. Just as he will be there for his daughters.
My bestest friend in the whole wide world called to ask me to go with her. I figured it would be a great chance to spend time with Kim. We just don’t get enough time together without jobs, kids and significant others around. But that is just life, we have accepted it and make time for each other as we can. I was looking forward to a 6 hour round trip car ride to gossip with Kim. On the Friday before we were to leave, I got a phone call from Linda, another friend from high school. She heard that we were going to the memorial service and wanted a ride with us, if possible. I told Linda, I would call her when Kim was picking me up and we would then pick her up.
The three of us haven’t been together since the late 80’s before we graduated from high school so of course there was lots of gossip to get caught up on. It was a great car ride that just flew by because of all the memories and news to share.
We arrived at the funeral home. As soon as we walked into the room, Wally was up front motioning us forward. After being enveloped in a huge hug from Wally, we found seats and cried through the service. It was a beautiful service that allowed for us to share our grief and start the healing process of loosing Deb.
After the service we went back to her parents home to be with Wally and found Daryl, Wally’s best friend from high school. Talk about a reunion! More memories and more news! It was wonderful to see Daryl and to know that he is happy.
After being at her parents house, we went back to Wally’s. After not seeing him and Daryl for so long, we really didn’t want to loose them again. We ended up play Wii and drinking the night away. We continued sharing news of our lives, hugs, and memories of high school. There were some tears mixed in too. Healing tears though. We finally went to bed, only because Daryl and Wally needed to get up in the morning to be at the airport for Daryl’s flight home.
In the morning, we all said good-bye with yet more hugs and promised to not loose touch again. While Deb’s death may have rekindled lost friendships, we cannot wait for another of our group to die to reconnect. We are not going to loose each other again. But we are going to Just Go Home, for Deb.
Back to the hugs. I haven’t been hugged SO much in YEARS!! I have forgotten how wonderful touching another human being can be. Every chance Wally had, he went around getting more hugs, not just from the women, but ANYONE who was near. It was funny and lovely.
I will NOT loose contact with these people again. Life is too precious.
