Tonight we went over to my mother-in-law’s house to clean. Mostly we were going through boxes in her room and helping her continue to sort through belongings. My husband’s aunts have been over there and have gotten a lot done already. There is no rush to sell the old house so that is nice. The moving date is set for February 6th.

I found a letter that I’d written my father-in-law when I was in college. One time I was down there visiting and something about my car made him take a closer look at it. Turns out it needed over $800 of repair work. He took it into the shop where he would normally take his cars and paid the bill. I’d forgotten that I’d paid him back for that.

The letter was dated October 17, 2002 which was not long before our New Year’s Day engagement. We’ve had so many memories together since then, 95% of them good. If there were any bad ones they were only misunderstandings that went unspoken on either end. I still think of him often and the lovely times when he was alive and here.