Last night at 2 a.m., I woke up and could not get back to sleep for a couple of hours until 5 a.m. It is my pattern. I cannot sleep on the first night on Navajoland. Lots of thoughts came in to my mind. I felt my late dad-in-law was excited and talking to me. He suggested to talk about my new business to my mom-in-law. He also suggested to emphasize that the biggest purpose of my new business is to move back to Navajoland as soon as possible. Once I agreed, I guess our conversation was over. I could fall in asleep.
Around 6 a.m. of their time, which is 5 a.m. of our time, I naturally woke up with the dogs’ barking and birds’ chirping. As soon as I opened the entrance door, my mom-in-law walked in to the trailer house with the food tray. She said she woke up feeling hungry this morning so she cooked 4 breakfast sandwiches. She said last night that she hadn’t had appetite recently, so I was happy that her appetite was back. Having us there made her happy and resumed her appetite feeling, I guess.
After we ate, my husband and my mom-in-law went to two offices; the local hospital and the utility office. At these offices my mom-in-law added my husband as her backup in their official page. Since it was tough for her to switch the owner’s name from my dad-in-law from her after his death, even though they are a married couple, she wanted making these procedures easy for the future. They also went to the MVD office. In last October they finished the paper work to rename the trailer house ownership from my late-dad-in-law. They even paid for the fee, but they haven’t heard anything from them even though they were told somebody should contact them within some month. Unfortunately though when they arrived at the office, they saw a long waiting line even in the outside of the office because they had only one worker in the office. They could not do anything about it today.
In the evening we went to visit my husband’s cousin’s house. My husband and his female cousin talked a lot over the phone, but they hadn’t seen each other for more than 16 years. When they hugged, the cousin got emotional and cried. Late they told me that they (my husband and the female cousin and the male cousin) were always together when they were small. And now the male cousin passed away in last December. My husband and the female cousin kept on talking by themselves. I know how they felt. I had a very good time when I saw one of my cousins when I was visiting my parents in 2020. I am happy for them that they could finally see each other again after many years.
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