honey,
i just got home from debbie’s mom’s funeral. very nice. they said such nice things about both her mom (what a lady she was and a saint) and debbie (what an attentive daughter she was, blah, blah). anyway, got to thinking, and i want you to speak at my funeral and speak well about me, but also talk about my “real” side, where appropriate. i don’t want to be demonized, nor do i want to be beautified in front of people; i want people to smile, laugh, and feel happy for having known me.
xox
mom
“You can discuss what an attentive mother I was, blah, blah.”
March 16, 2009 at 9:39 am
No I think she just wants all aspects of her life brought up. At funerals a lot of times only discuss the good stuff about the person.
March 16, 2009 at 9:54 am
I think it’s sweet.
March 16, 2009 at 10:44 am
Be sure to mention that she has confused beautify and beatify (the latter is to declare someone on the way to sainthood; the former is what the coroner will do when she/he slathers rouge on the corpse).
March 16, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Aww she wants the funeral from four weddings and a funeral. I think thats great.
My momj is funny. We were laying in bed and when I was really little she’d massage my hands when I was sick or upset or couldn’t sleep. Her scratching my arm and massaging my hand always calmed me down enough to sleep.
So we’re watching TV one night before I moved cross country and she was doing the hand thing and a funeral was on the screen so she turns to me and said “Will you tell everyone I gave the best handjobs at my funeral”
I smiled and said NOT a problem. HAHAHA. she realized what she said and started cracking up. AWWW i loev my mommy,
March 16, 2009 at 3:46 pm