Happy Holidays / Sad News

 First I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Hanukkah!

I know there are other holidays in December but I don't know the proper greetings/joyful wishes for them. But I wish everyone else a lovely holiday.

And a Happy (soon to be) New Year.

If you don't want to know the sad part of this post until later just stop here and come back when you're mentally prepared.

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And now for the sad news. 

My husband Jess died in his sleep on Sunday night/Monday Morning, December 23rd.  He was fifty four years old.  He had a lot of underlying conditions that effected his health but nothing that was immediately obvious as cause of death. Because he had mobility issues he hadn't really left the house since he was forced into 'retirement' a couple of years ago so until the Medical Examiner determines the cause any funeral service is on hold.  He wanted to be cremated and we can't do anything without a death certificate.

As you can imagine, its been a tough week. We'd been married eighteen years.  The cats are confused and can tell I'm upset but its not like this is something I can explain to them.

I've been on vacation this week, the days that weren't holidays, so I've been keeping busy cleaning my house and going through old pictures of him so I have something for his service when I'm able to have it.  

Speaking with the director at the funeral home suggested that mid January would likely be the earliest I could have a service for him.

This is not how I imagined I'd be spending my Christmas holiday but life rarely goes as planned.