Sorry for your loss Dan. I rejoice in your mother's gain!
2 Corinthians 5: 6-8
Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. For we live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
This was from a Little House on the Prairie episode and I've always liked it:
Remember me.
Remember me with smiles and laughter,
For that's the way I'll remember you all.
If you can only remember me with tears,
Then don't remember me at all.
~ Michael Landon
Take care,
Karl