Last week we took the train to Småland to go to my grandmother’s funeral, spend time with family and friends and of course we took the opportunity to visit a second hand. There are completely different prices than here in Stockholm which makes it extra fun and I have made some nice bargains that I want to show you. There were also some toys and books for Flora to stay with my mother.
We also went to Småland to attend my beloved grandmother’s funeral. My grandmother Stina who was truly the nicest person in the world. So caring and incredibly warm and generous. Always make sure you’re nice, with earrings and hair up. I wore a hat from the 60s and Flora had their new patent leather shoes from the flea market. It was such a beautiful funeral for grandma. Solemn, nice and sad as only funerals can be. The sun shone in the beautiful chapel and it is always so beautiful to see how the light breaks through old windows. It’s so beautiful.
We sang a hymn and it was so sad it hurt the heart as we sang a line about “the family follows the passage of the family.” Baffling thoughts and feelings about time. The time that has passed. The time I needed to have with Grandma. The time is now. The time that is too late. I think it was the hymn ‘beautiful is the earth’ and although this is the only thing you know, and as I think the priest also said at one point, that everyone should all die at some point and that life is not forever. My fear of death has gotten worse since becoming a mother. It can be common when you have children and life takes on a different meaning. The feeling of time is running out faster than ever before. It becomes so clear that time passes as your baby grows and learns new things. I try to force myself to think that the time is now, now, now. Don’t wait for anything and don’t think too much later, but now. So the cliché is so true and there is something that reminds us of it more clearly than just funerals.
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