Comments on: Armani http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:13:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Bonnie http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani/comment-page-1#comment-609 Bonnie Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:51:08 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/armani/#comment-609 Dear Jen, My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family now. I would send you homemade soup and bread, if I could! I hope you do celebrate your father's life in some way. Planning our dad's memorial service, for three weeeks after his passing, began the healing for my sisters and I. We chose the music he loved and made sure there was time for people to share their stories about him. It was so good to be with so many people who loved him. Planning something just for you, for your own way of honouring and remembering your dad and your love for him, can begin the healing. love and hugs, Bonnie Dear Jen,
My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family now.
I would send you homemade soup and bread, if I could!
I hope you do celebrate your father’s life in some way. Planning our dad’s memorial service, for three weeeks after his passing, began the healing for my sisters and I. We chose the music he loved and made sure there was time for people to share their stories about him. It was so good to be with so many people who loved him.
Planning something just for you, for your own way of honouring and remembering your dad and your love for him, can begin the healing.
love and hugs,
Bonnie

]]> By: SusanG http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani/comment-page-1#comment-608 SusanG Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:11:12 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/armani/#comment-608 Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for those staying behind. They provide you with closure, an opportunity to mark a passing, celebrate a life. Have one of your own. Have a string of them. As you travel, call up family and friends in the areas you're going to and meet at a restaurant. Bring pictures, tell stories and laugh and cry and eat. I learned a lot about my dad from the people who came to his visitation...stuff he never told me, often about me. Wear his favorite color or something that brings a memory of him. I wore my dad's bathrobe for a while because it felt like he was hugging me when I put it on...something he never did in life because that just wasn't "him". I remember putting a HUGE grave mound on his plot that first Christmas...gaudy and bright...because I wanted to. As I drove the pegs into the ground to anchor it I said to him, "I know you probably don't like this much but I do and guess what...you don't get a vote this time!" It made me laugh. Have your memorial service. Susan Funerals aren’t for the dead, they’re for those staying behind. They provide you with closure, an opportunity to mark a passing, celebrate a life. Have one of your own. Have a string of them. As you travel, call up family and friends in the areas you’re going to and meet at a restaurant. Bring pictures, tell stories and laugh and cry and eat. I learned a lot about my dad from the people who came to his visitation…stuff he never told me, often about me. Wear his favorite color or something that brings a memory of him. I wore my dad’s bathrobe for a while because it felt like he was hugging me when I put it on…something he never did in life because that just wasn’t “him”. I remember putting a HUGE grave mound on his plot that first Christmas…gaudy and bright…because I wanted to. As I drove the pegs into the ground to anchor it I said to him, “I know you probably don’t like this much but I do and guess what…you don’t get a vote this time!” It made me laugh. Have your memorial service. Susan

]]> By: Beverly Keaton Smith http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani/comment-page-1#comment-607 Beverly Keaton Smith Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:30:05 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/armani/#comment-607 Hi Jennifer, it suddenly popped into my mind this morning to take a look at your blog. I am so deeply sorry to discover that your dad has passed on. My deepest sympathy to you and your family....Sending loving thoughts and prayers your way. Love, Beverly Hi Jennifer, it suddenly popped into my mind this morning to take a look at your blog. I am so deeply sorry to discover that your dad has passed on. My deepest sympathy to you and your family….Sending loving thoughts and prayers your way. Love, Beverly

]]> By: Tracy http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani/comment-page-1#comment-606 Tracy Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:46:22 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/armani/#comment-606 I agree as well. Celebrate his life and your love for him in a way that gives you some comfort. Take good care and be well Jen. Thinking of you and sending warm hugs across the strait. Tracy I agree as well. Celebrate his life and your love for him in a way that gives you some comfort. Take good care and be well Jen.

Thinking of you and sending warm hugs across the strait.
Tracy

]]> By: Linda http://www.comfortqueen.com/armani/comment-page-1#comment-605 Linda Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:21:04 +0000 http://www.comfortqueen.com/_wp/armani/#comment-605 Jen, I've been gone and only just found out about your Father's passing. Take solace in the fact that he will be with you more now than ever before. I feel so close to my father in spirit since he passed. You will too. Do try to have a memorial to celebrate his life. It is really for you and your family more than it is for him. But he'll be there and he'll appreciate it. God Bless you with the peace of understanding. Linda Williams Jen,
I’ve been gone and only just found out about your Father’s passing. Take solace in the fact that he will be with you more now than ever before. I feel so close to my father in spirit since he passed. You will too.

Do try to have a memorial to celebrate his life. It is really for you and your family more than it is for him. But he’ll be there and he’ll appreciate it.

God Bless you with the peace of understanding.

Linda Williams

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