Breakfast
I ended up being the 2nd to wake up. I joined Dean for some cereal and some conversation. The picture is blurry because I wasn't sure if it was rude to take a photo under these circumstances. I helped Dean write an email to a pastor to ask her to speak at the funeral.
We ended up having an impromptu meeting with the pastor at the church and set it up to meet with her after the funeral home arrangements.
Lunch
I ended up eating a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.
At 1:30pm Dean, Mike and Steven and I went to the funeral home to make the arrangements. I had never done anything like this and it was very hard. There were moments when all of us just froze, felt helpless, felt like we couldn't move forward another second. We all fought through somehow, and made the appropriate arrangements.
Once home we were already getting flowers, these ones were from my Step Dad and Mom. They were beautiful. Diva had a fondness for yellow flowers so these were perfect.
The pastor stopped by, shortly after arriving home. She is an amazing woman and really helped us all focus on more of the positive things and understand that being upset is a good normal thing. It was also relieving to know Diva would have been exceptionally happy with this pastor if she had gotten to know her as well as we did. She had met her at least once before and talked with her about a cancer survivorship program she was throwing. The pastor had a lot of the same beliefs as Diva which was very comforting. I feel like from the moment we met with her things got a little better for us all.
Dinner
Later, Mike, Steven and I ended up going to target to pick up a few things we forgot to pack, and to pick up a few food items so everyone had something to eat. I ended up picking up ingredients to make home made spaghetti. For some reason Italian food is always my comfort food so I was hoping it would be for them as well.
We spent the rest of the evening together again. We just started to talk about stories of Diva to help make us feel better.
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