A Year in Pictures of Working

Christmas Eve with Dad's extended family.

Me: How is Grandpa Paul doing?
Dad: He seems to be doing pretty good. He came out to one of our games last week. I hear he's been playing a lot of cards.
Me: This is sort of a weird question, but... where was Betty buried?
Dad: Oh, I'm sure she was buried next to her first husband. Just like how Grandpa will be buried next to my mother. They discussed all this before they were married.

Later I talked to Grandpa myself.

Grandpa: Yep. Yep. Not the best year. A real bummer.
Me: Well, hopefully 2007 will be better.
Grandpa: Here's hoping it's not worse.

He handed out sheet music and led everyone in Christmas carols. His sons, his daughter-in-laws and his forty-some grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The men sang a song. Then the women. Then the children. Finally, he sang one by himself. "Ihr Kinderlein, kommet," a German carol his mother used to sing to him when he was a child.

# posted by Arnie : 11:22 PM