Sort of frustrated. Two of my sisters have begun to argue about my father's estate. It's nearly been settled, a year and a half after his death, and now they start arguing.
They keep sending me emails trying to involve me, and I have not been (and do not plan on ) answering them.
I just want this all to be over.
And what they are arguing about? The wording on the final standard lawyer's form we're supposed to sign and get back to the lawyer so the court can finally close the estate.
I think the real (and underlying) problem was the headstone. One of them had this bright idea to order the headstone over the internet. One of the others said to have it delivered to her and she would take care of it and take it to the old family cemetary in the backmost back hills of West Virginia. Now -- my parents were cremated so its not even as if they are buried anywhere. I tried to tell the two of them that it was not a good idea, and if they wanted a headstone it should be ordered locally in West Virginia, but no one listened to me (I am the family dummy, you see). They went ahead and ordered the thing, and it turned out to be so heavy the guy refused to even unload it from the truck, so my sister had to call her husband from work and a bunch of neighbors to get it off the truck. Then they had to rent a special dolly and truck for the weekend to get it to West Virginia from Maryland. When they got to the little cemetary in the middle of nowhere, it was locked and they could not contact the caretakers because there is no cell phone reception down there. So they ended up having to leave it next to the cemetary wall, and some of our cousins had to take care of it (they got a key and roped the damned thing into the cemetary and into a spot) later.
Its the two that were involved with the headstone that are fighting, and the one who delivered it that started it. The third sister and I, who had nothing to do with that debacle, are fine with everything.
Families can be the greatest blessing in the world, but they can also be frustrating.
