As soon as Mom decided to stop doing chemo and was given the "six months...or less" to live verdict we had a family Skype call and very quickly decided that we were all going to get to Corvallis around Thanksgiving and rent a house at the Coast and have our final reunion with Mom. Everything fell into place - a place to stay, no tests (Scotty & Jeff are in med school), cheap(ish) flights...we were just meant to be together.
One of the absolute best moments of our Oregon trip was being in the temple together - Dad was sick, but Mom, Stephen, all my brothers and their wives were able to do sealings together and then go visit the Celestial Room and sit and talk and cry. That was the one thing Mom always wanted: to be in the temple with all her children and their spouses.
I don't quite know how to express my feelings about it without possibly sounding like "oh, we're so great", but we were all there. After all the challenges and difficulties, we were all there together. And to be reminded that one day, not too soon, we'll all be together again. It was a very joyful, teary time.
We did some singing around the piano - another of Mom's favorite things in the whole world!
The kids had so much fun with aunts & uncles & grandparents and cousins!
Most everyone arrived on Thanksgiving Day, then to the temple on Friday, the Civil War game (OSU vs UO) on Saturday, little Kate Carol's blessing on Sunday and then off to the Coast!
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