{"id":502,"date":"2010-09-15T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blogblog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-09-30T09:23:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T05:23:43","slug":"breakfast-gravesite-visits-with-great-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/breakfast-gravesite-visits-with-great-grandma\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakfast & Gravesite Visits with Great Grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Four Generations: Irene Lampe, Clarissa Rizal, Elizabeth Hope, Lily Hudson<\/p><\/div>\n

Our mother calls the shots on Sunday.\u00a0 We know not to make big plans for Sunday mornings because we know that Mom is gonna be calling up the day before and say “…let’s have breakfast at Donna’s…it’s my treat.”\u00a0 Sometimes our cousins, the Belarde girls and their families attend. \u00a0 Sometimes\u00a0 sisters Jean and Deanne; other times it’s just brothers Rick and Tim.\u00a0 This time it’s a combination that hasn’t ever happened before…<\/p>\n

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Irene calls for another Sunday morning breakfast at Donna's: Betty, Lily, Ishmael, Dee, Rick, Dan, Mom...and I (not pictured cuz I'm taking the photo)<\/p><\/div>\n

I hadn’t ever noticed how much my mother enjoys her meals more when someone is eating with her – huh?\u00a0 – the simplest of things that go unawares for many years until a person’s life gets simplified!\u00a0 She doesn’t want much anymore.\u00a0 She just appreciates her every breath at hand. \u00a0 And because it was another rare, sunny day in Juneau, she wanted to put flowers on the graves, to visit the memories of her mother, brothers, niece, sister and husband, knowing that any day she will be joining them.<\/p>\n

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Beautiful grave roses<\/p><\/div>\n

Three weeks before my father passed away in Decmeber 2008, my father requested that we put 5 red roses on his grave in memory of him along with his 4 best friends who were blown to smithereens in a tank during World War II in the Phillipines.\u00a0 Dad said he would have been in that tank had he been accepted into the Phillipine Army – but because he was an inch too short, he was not accepted into the army.<\/p>\n

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Our brother Richard Lampe with our mother Irene Lampe visiting graves at the Alaska Memorial Park on Riverside Drive<\/p><\/div>\n

How many middle-aged men do you know who take care of their mother full-time?\u00a0 Our brother Rick has been taking care of Mom since our father’s passing almost two years ago.<\/p>\n

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Our grandparents' graves, Mary Wilson Sarabia and Juan Sarabia<\/p><\/div>\n

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Our Mother Irene says she'll be laying next to Dad someday...<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our mother calls the shots on Sunday.\u00a0 We know not to make big plans for Sunday mornings because we know that Mom is gonna be calling up the day before and say “…let’s have breakfast at Donna’s…it’s my treat.”\u00a0 Sometimes our cousins, the Belarde girls and their families attend. \u00a0 Sometimes\u00a0 sisters Jean and Deanne; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,55],"tags":[63,30,34],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honoring-others","category-family-friends-relatives","tag-irene-loling-sarabia-lampe","tag-ishmael-hope","tag-lily-hudson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clarissarizal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}