Celebration Success and In the Blender

As you well may have guessed, my life has been thrown into a blender and turned onto high!  Things are starting to settle into medium speed now that a week has passed since Steve's life celebration. 

The Celebration was wonderful and sad and exhausting, to say the least.  I'm so pleased with how it turned out.  Steve would have been very impressed and moved by the generous gifts of your time and talents; I know I am.   All agree it was a huge success.  

 

This event would not have been the big success that it was without the work of many talented and willing friends!

Thank you Amy Neuman for spearheading the event: performing most of the organizing and coordination, creating and excuting the RSVPs, word cloud, print outs of wishes and eulogy,  memorial cards, and table center pieces.  Your time and talent were a loving tribute to Steve and are greatly appreciated. 

Thank you VeAnne Virgin for bringing the centerpieces, tying the fish hooks on, and creating the music sound track.  Spot on! 

Thank you Elaine Ableidinger for the beautiful flower arrangements.  They were the perfect touch.

Thank you Deb Mrazek for the AV equipment, framed commitment instructions and tea lights and setting up the memorabilia table and slide show with Sam Lucente. Everyone enjoyed these additions. 

Thank you to each of you who helped with the set up and take down.  You all made it easy and enjoyable.  

As for how I'm doing, I'm staying busy and involved.  My whole family came and I so enjoyed that.  We haven't all been together for 5 years.  Seeing each of you, or hearing from you all was really special and memorable.  Also, I am taking advantage of the bereavement services offered by the hospice organization and I must say, so far it's been really helpful. 

Mostly, all of the support I've received has really affected me more than I can explain. I'm doing OK and grieving and then doing OK again.  It's like waves.  I'm learning to flow with them.