Day 11/365: Graves

Day 11/365: Graves
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For the past week my son has been asking to go visit the Sam Houston Grave. It's in a cemetery called Oakwood.

So today we went and visited it. It is FULL of very, very old grave sites. It's beautiful there! In one section it's nothing but unmarked graves like the one I have posted here. I am not sure who they are for.

I was snapping photos of various things and listening to Shelby and Moira talking. Moira said "I wonder what it's like to die". I have to admit that made me wince a little... I've never heard her say anything like that before. But I don't remember ever taking them to a grave before so she's never really been faced with it like that. I didn't say anything, just listened to them chatter. A bit later Shelby added that she would be ok with it since she would be in heaven. Then they started talking about spirits and where they go. It was sweet listening to them both.

We were going to head over to a movie so we spent about an hour there then loaded up in the car to go to the theater. Michael said we should start considering where we want to be buried. I told him I didn't know... bury me back in England near my grandparents. He said, only if I cremate you- that's way too expensive otherwise! (so true) I wasn't really interested in talking about it, so I started joking around.

He told me he always thought it would be sweet to have me cremated and sprinkle a bit on his dinner every night so he'd have a little bit of me with him. I replied with the typical "ewww" response.

Then I thought about it a second. I told him "You know... ash doesn't really have any nutritional value. So basically you want to just poop me out??" (acting completely offended) At this point the kids all started going ewww and laughing. "Nooooo" he said. He then realized that was a bad idea and started talking about how he could plant veggies on top of me and then there would be some nutrition there. Ahhhh make the madness end!!!! lol

Anyway... we finally parked at the Theater and ended that disturbing, but funny, conversation. At least the kids got a kick out of us. We saw Bedtime Stories, just in case anyone was curious (It was funny!).

Later on Shelby called us all the nerd family. I was "funny nerd". Michael was "wierdo nerd" Moira was "cute nerd" Matthew was "annoying nerd". (Matt and Shelby have a love-ewww-hate relationship, which is pretty darn cute)

Just another day around here!

~Donna