Family get together

It's been over 6 years already since my father's passing. We gathered mid-October for a remembrance church service after which we joined for a lunch in downtown Deinze. 

Each time it's the opportunity to show the boys where my parents were teaching in the past, where my sister and I attended school, how we biked etc and how much has changed in the meantime now that the old industrial mills all get reconverted to hip appartnment blocks. 

The entrance of our old high school next to the Leie river border

It was touching to be all gathered together with the family around my father's grave. Since we tend to alternate visiting/caring for my mother and we also don't go to the cemetery very often, being there all so numerous together was something that touched both my sister and myself at the same moment. 

We enjoyed good bistro food together. 

While my sister and I helped my mother with some chores at home, her grandchildren connected and goofed around.