I knew there was a reason why I don't want a lot of kids. Ok, well there are several reasons but this is one of them. It seems that the larger your family is, the more drama ensues. My grandma is one of 7 siblings, all of which were living until my aunt died in April...y'all know that story! Here's what we really didn't know (I'm only gonna add this in because I think it adds to the drama of the whole story!)...My great-aunt Ruth (from Mississippi) and my great-aunt Ethel (from KY) were at the hospital when Nellie died. Apparently, just after the doctors told the family to give them a couple of days to get some meds in her and that she's be just fine, Ruth was out in the hallway with Nellie's husband John leaving Ethel alone in the room with Nellie. Apparently, Nellie coughed and starting spewing blood from her mouth. Very, VERY large amounts of blood. Ethel screamed and nearly fainted while Nellie choked on her own blood and died. Its now painfully obvious why the code team was unable to do anything for her. Anyway, what none of us knew was that my aunt Nell had lung cancer. She didn't tell anyone and obviously had forgone treatment. She had been severly depressed since the unexpected death of her only son in 2005 and was just basically waiting to die. So I can only guess that she must've had some kind of tumor lysis which would explain the amount of blood, etc. Sorry that this is so graphic but its like putting together pieces of a puzzle for me.

Aunt Nell was buried on monday while I was in Vegas. My uncle John asked the sisters to come in and immediately clean their house out. He wanted to move to their house in KY permanently and wanted all memories of Nell out of that house. So, that's just what they did. It took them days to get through her clothes, purses, jewelry, etc. She was a bit of a fashionista and loved to dress. They found 71 pairs of houseshoes alone. (Wonder where I get that habit from?? ) Aunt Nell was always loaded down with jewelry and she had a lot of expensives diamond pieces so when it came time to go through her jewelry, Ruth put all of the "good stuff" to the side and the sisters split the other stuff up to be divided among the nieces. I received her 25th anniversary wedding band, which is a beautiful wide, gold band. Ruth and John apparently boxed up the really expensive pieces (she had one ring with a receipt that showed my uncle paid $5K for it and that was a very long time ago) and Ruth told him to put them up somewhere. So, the girls got the house in order and started the process of moving on.

As I said, Nell was buried on monday. On friday my uncle John took a woman out to dinner and succeeded in outraging my entire family. I actually stuck up for him telling my grandma that she was out of line for being upset and telling her that he was probably very lonely after having lost his mate of 50+ years. I tried to get her to see it from his perspective and all she kept saying to me was that Nell wasn't even cold in the ground and he already had a gf! Again, I kept sticking up for him. Then, he started to get ballsy. He introduced her to my cousin and even took her to their house in KY. Apparently this lady was a friend of theirs, as she is the sister of their next door neighbor. He even asked my grandma, Nell's closest friend in the world, to meet this woman. My grandma said no.

Uncle John has proceeded to absolutely lose his mind and I've gotta wonder how much of a part this woman plays. John called Ruth's job in Mississippi (she's a slots manager in a casino in Tunica) and told her boss that she was a thief and had stolen Nell's jewelry. After calling 3x, her boss finally told him to stop or they would press harrassment charges. He called Ethel in KY and apparently called her every name in the book and told her that he was calling the cops if she didn't return the stuff. The ironic thing is that Ethel was already back in KY when the jewelry was sorted. It was my grandma and Ruth that did it. Interestingly enough, John has never accused my grandma of anything.

So today the Fairfield police department called my grandmother to speak to her because John has charged Ruth and Ethel with theft. The kicker is that, based on the cash value of the jewelry involved (over $10K), it makes the charges a felony. John is in his 80s and the aunts are in their 60s. Can you imagine this?? Its crazy to me. 60 year old women getting investigated for felony charges. So of course, John's family sticks by him and believes him...all except one of his neices. She has a friend who is a PI and had the woman investigated. Apparently this woman (aka the Black Widow) has been married 3x and marries old men for their money. John's neice believes that she saw the perfect opportunity when Nell died and dug her hooks into him. My grandma actually thinks that this lady stole the jewelry or has hidden it and convinced him that my aunts have it.

So we'll see how it all pans out. Fortunately for all of us, my grandma's brother, Raymond, is an attorney and used to serve on the KY State Senate. He has a lot of friends in a lot of places and hopefully will be able to sort all of this out.

I'm just sad. I can't my family has turned on each other like that. I think about my Uncle John as the sweet old man who used to give me $100 for Christmas every year and absolutely adored me. I can't imagine him turning on the aunts like this. I think my Aunt Nell is rolling over in her grave right now.