Birth and death, happiness and sorrow, regret and pride. The emotions are like a roller-coaster.
My wife's father, my father-in-law, passed away early this morning. I feel so very helpless and seemingly unable to comfort and console my wife. We knew that he was sick. She was out in Minnesota visiting back in September when things looked bad. She returned, and then earlier this week we decided that she should go back to Minnesota again. She was planning on leaving tomorrow, but then this happened. She caught the first flight out this morning. I know she feels guilty, because I suggested to her to go on Friday, but she decided not to. Now she is regretting not being there with her Dad in his final moments. I'm not sure what to do or say. I'm still at home in San Diego with the kids, and after arrangements have been made I will need to go to Minnesota as well.
My kids asked me this morning where Mom was, since Mom was here last night and was gone this morning. I tried to explain the situation to them as best I could. The 5-year old seemed to understand, the 3-year asked if she could watch TV after I finished explaining to her why her mom wasn't home and why I didn't know when she would be back. So I guess she probably doesn't really understand what is happening right now. I suppose that's a good thing in some ways.
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