Saturday, March 15, 2025

Forty days


It’s forty day, six weeks, since my father died. 
In Greek Orthodox religion it’s an important day 

So today we met the priest at the cemetery so he could say the prayers over the grave 

Tomorrow we go to church for more praying. 

I think all these “ important dates” are not something i want to do. It doesn’t allow you to move on. But everyone expects it’s, including my mother. So we do it. 

Both wonder son and beautiful daughter in law had things planned today   They asked if we could watch Ana and of course we did. We picked her up at her house on the way to the cemetery and had her with us. 

To keep her busy while waiting for the Priest we collected gum nuts. She got quite the haul 


Here she is putting them in containers pretending to be cooking with them


Then we took all the cushions and made an obstacle course 




Watching the telly with her bestie 



Right now and has gone to the shed to see how long her daddy is going to be. 

Meanwhile I had to rip out one whole pattern repeat 
I don’t know how or why but it just didn’t look correct 

It would of bothered me so I made the decision to rip 

I counted the rows as I ripped it out but still it took me a little while to work out which row I was on 




So I’m one repeat down. It doesn’t matter. In the end I’ll be much happier with it 

All in all it’s been an interesting day 

4 comments:

  1. Thank goodness Ana can be distracted by small things.
    Those memorials go on and on. 40 is still the most important and there are always loads of people and coffee afterwards and sometimes a meal. Much easier for you all with a simple blessing.
    3 month, 6 month, one year and 3 year memorials aren't so common anymore and they're not so well attended.
    Kali anapafsi

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    1. My sister and I have already agreed the next one will be one year
      It’s just too much

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  2. That's a lot of memorials. I think it's wise to skip a couple if it's feeling too much.

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  3. Family/religious traditions often bring a sense of closure and comfort. Give your Mom a big hug!

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