We will keep plugging away at it. But it makes us tired, too.

You'd think she would learn to tie things up securely, after my grandfather left all his money to the one male among the seven kids, with instructions to "take care of the girls." Alas, my uncle had different ideas about what that meant, and most of the estate ended up making sure his ten kids get to go to college in California, while some of my aunts scrape by on pittances.