My deepest condolences, Kheldarn.
I can only imagine your pain. You are in my thoughts at this terrible time.
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condolences, thoughts and prayer hun
safe travels see you when you return! 
Hi all.
I left on Tuesday of the week of Thanksgiving to go to my Aunt's, so that we could attempt to finalize things after my mother's passing.
Things didn't exactly go as planned. Her bank wants a letter from Probate Court before they'll move the money in her account into an Estate Fund and shut down her account. And, of course, it wasn't a simple in and out thing with Probate Court, so we didn't bother going, as we'd be home before they finished up. My Aunt has the paperwork, though, and we went over it, so she knows how to fill it out.
The Wife & I spent the rest of Wednesday going through the self storage where my Aunt put my mother's belongings. We got through about half of it. We went back Friday morning, and finished up, then went to lunch. That evening, The Wife took the rental car back, and went to pick up the Ford Escape we were supposed to get. They managed to upgrade us to a Ford Edge, but it was still too small to really mean a damn. Between our stuff we brought up, and the few things my Aunt had at her house, we could only fit, like, 3 boxes from storage into it. The Wife was really pissed off at the size of the thing.
We left Saturday, and stopped over in Savannah, GA for the night. This morning, we went to The Lady & Sons, Paula Deen's restaurant, and reserved a table for 12:30 PM. We then went down to River Street, browsed some shops, watched a big ship come down the Savannah River with containers on it, then went to brunch and stuffed ourselves silly.
After that, we went back to River Street, did some shopping, then hit the road and returned home.
Since we weren't able to bring, well, anything, really, we're gonna have to make another trip up there. We'll probably go sometime after the holidays, though. Blarg.
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Sorry Kheldarn. My brother and I did something very similar when my father died 7 years ago. We flew to Florida and drove the old Saturn back to Massachusetts, stuffed to the roof with as much as we could get in for my mother.
We ended up repeating the trip with a Uhaul a few weeks later to finish up. My thoughts continue to be with you through this tough time.
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Thanks, guys. Your kind words mean a lot to me.
As for going up to SC, I have no idea when we'll be headed up there.
I turned control of the legal stuff over to my aunt. It makes more sense, because she lives up there, so no additional travel expenses for her, and she knows my mothers wishes, and how to best take care of them.
Once all the legal stuff is out of the way, we'll figure out when we're all going to get together and take care of the personal stuff.
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