Here, There and Everywhere

In addition to getting the house ready for Saturday, I met with Fr. Jeff and the musicians today to plan the funeral Mass. Everyone is in agreement that I picked some good readings as Phil drove us home from Baltimore. Each reading either speaks about Trish's character in some way or about her struggles and rewards during this two year battle -- bummer, you may want to pay close attention to the readings Saturday.

We have some powerful music lined up for the Mass as well. My favorite song and my ringtone for calls from Trish will be sung b Sheree during after communion. I got to hear her sing it tonight and tried to hold back the tears. I think I posted the lyrics earlier this year. As I listened to Sheree sing it tonight, I realized that it is a simple and pure song -- much like Trish. There are no harsh words or phrases that can be interpreted in more than one way. It's message is very appropriate. Love is eternal. Love is pure. Just like my bride. Listen carefully to the lyrics. It will be a meditation song after communion.

In other news, Ashley and Patrick Boyd convinced me to put some recipes together and they will prepare memorial recipe cards for the taking at the wake. Trish has so many favorite recipes that I may put a book together later and make it available on Cafe Press at cost. In the meantime, the three recipes available tomorrow (Friday) will be: Sun Dried Tomato and Pesto Torta, Trish Ahoy Cookies (our friend MarcO nick named Trish's chocolate chip cookies this) and her Dried Cranberry and White Chocolate Biscotti. If ou are looking for a good pizza dough recipe, Trish had three. They ranged from good, better to best and she chose which one to make based upon how much time she had. The best recipe took 3-4 hours -- yep just for pizza dough, not the whole pizza.

I told someone at the patient house recently that she even made toast from scratch. They said, so do I -- I take the bread out of the bag and put it in the toaster.... I said no, I mean really home made. She first bakes bread from scratch and than slices it and toasts it.

I don't think the boys and I will ever eat as well as we are accustomed to ever again.

We hope to see you Friday/Saturday and please stop by the house afterwards. If you can't make a service or just can't handle the services, please still feel free to drop by the house Saturday.