This upcoming Memorial Day weekend is shaping up to be a little different for my wife Pat and me and what we normally we do on it.
Pat and I usually visit four cemeteries, two here in the Shawnee area and two more in Oklahoma City.
We usually start out by visiting one cemetery east of town and placing flowers there for her parents and younger sister there. Then we head back in to Shawnee and place wreaths for her grandmother, granddad and uncles at another cemetery.
Then we take part of a day traveling to Oklahoma City where we visit two cemeteries quite a few miles apart. At one in the older part of town we place wreaths for my maternal mother, a couple of aunts and two sets of grandparents.
We head on out to the northwest portion of town to place wreaths for my dad and the mother who helped raise me along with my brother and an uncle.
But this year, at this point in the week anyway, I’m not sure we will do any of that, though we could do some of it.
I usually have all the wreaths we need to purchase done so by now. I confess I haven’t bought a single wreath yet because of the uncertainty to getting to any cemeteries at all.
Pat and I have been invited to a birthday party on Saturday for our niece’s son’s two-year-old son. He lives in Ardmore so that will take up quite a bit of the day.
I think the plan is for us to pick up our daughter Meghan and her son Liam who will ride down and back with us. But it should be a nice time.
On Sunday, I think we’re going back over to Norman.
Meghan and her husband Terry have invited us over for the afternoon to have some kind of cookout.
Not sure what all that entails but I know the food will be really good and it will be another opportunity to be with our kids and grandson.
A time to relax and enjoy one other’s company with nothing special planned.
In looking at this weekend’s forecast, we’ll probably need to keep an eye on the weather as well.
It’s calling for possible rain and thunderstorms Saturday through Monday so we’ll stay weather aware.
One thing we won’t do and that is venture down to the lake.
We’ve decided for the most part, we’ll stay away on the holidays. I couldn’t tell you the last time we were down to our lake place over the Memorial Day, July 4 or Labor Day weekend.
There have been some circumstances that have caused us to adjust the routine Memorial Day weekend plans.
That’s fine, I’ve learned, and just rolling with the flow is sometimes best and more fun anyway.