Yeah. My wife and I have it set up so that almost nothing goes into the estate, other than a bit of personal property (clothing) and cars. House is JTROS.
We made sure that her mom’s property passed almost entirely via POD and/or beneficiary, except the house, because passing that via estate to my wife brings the cost basis forward. The only other thing in the estate will be her car, which in our state is easy to pass outside of probate because it’s viewed a de minimis in our state.
We had some huge screw-ups with her dad’s passing in March where he had several life policies paying to “the residuary trust of Mr. XYZ” based on decades old estate law that no longer applied (and the supposed “Residuary Trust” was never enacted), and ended up having to probate his will even though by contract law, there was basically zero in his probate estate (which is generally what you should shoot for).
There’s nothing in my wife’s or my own that doesn’t pass by benfy designation, other than the cars, and the house again that we jointly own being JTROS. Do you even need a (property-based) will in such circumstances?
I’ve never bothered to set one up.
Yeah. Avoid probate.
The Theme to Schindler’s List, performed by Itzhak Perlman, is the best violin piece ever, period, in humble my opinion. Composition, performance, emotion, structure, all. John Williams is amazing x 100000. 
And has to be performed by Itzhak Perlman, as a lifelong fan. 
Sorry for your loss, CCE.
I don’t know enough about music to know if it’s the best, but I just listened to it and think it could bring a concrete block to tear up in the first couple of minutes, before it gets a bit lighter.
Apropos:
Ha!!! I love that assessment!! 
It is (to me) the best and probably one of the hardest to perform, and perform well. The violin has ten “positions”, I only learned like 5 of them. Watching Mr. Perlman perform, he appears to be performing in 3 (???) or more positions, and the higher notes are always harder to perfpem.
Love love love love this piece. Love.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the movie, but I was crying like Niagara Falls well before this piece was played, and definitely when it was at the end. A portion of it was played in a history class I had, and I could not control my tears, I had allergies that day so I sort of passed it off as that, since I was the only person crying in the class. Heartless, I say!! (Kidding) (well, kind of)
It looks like a soapbox derby car.
One of my favorite lines from Yellowstone. Mia in the backseat of the pickup truck.
“Cool shit ain’t cheap and cheap shit ain’t cool”.
It’s incredibly beautiful, overall. The first few movements had me crying, then in the latter I felt some hope.
i’ve never actually seen the movie. I don’t know how I’ve managed to “not-to”, except that I don’t watch any television, and haven’t really in 40 years.
My kids do sometimes have something on, when they are here on college breaks. So I do look at what they have on a bit. But I myself don’t even know how to turn the damned thing on!
But I do spend time on youtube, so it was easy to find this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ah3iPXdLn8
Edit - and now I can’t stop listening to it, on repeat…
I guess I’m emotional (see next post).
Hard to believe that you were the only crying . . . those classmates scare me.
Ummm . . . you tell the remote what you want to watch and it magically appears?
ETA: I should speak. If not for sports and news mine would just be a dust collector.
My first grandchild, Benjamin Ralph (named for his living, and recently departed grandfathers) was born this afternoon. Babe and mom (my daughter) are both very fine, doing well.
My wife had planned to drive down to Bradenton today but when our daughter went into labor about 4 a.m. we shifted to a flight. Brand New Grammy made it to town (and hosp) 4 hours before delivery.
So I have joined the Honorable Olde Fartes And Grampas Society, finally. LoL.
Circle of life. My kids’ last grandparent, their Grammy, passed away on Friday. We’re still processing that.
Congratulations! Glad grandma made it in time. 
Yay! 
Welcome to the club, ‘Grandpa’! Now, as for your new moniker, will you designate how you will be called or let BR do it? Best wishes for all the wonderful things to come your way. Best wishes to the CCE family. Lots to think about, past and future! 
My d-i-l constantly worried about what our first grandchild should call me. I repeatedly told her not to worry, that the child would come up with a name. And one day, while changing her, she looked up at me and said, “Ama.” I looked at her mother who was also in awe. Well done, little one. Child, parents, and two siblings have adopted it. I am “named”.
I love that story, so innocent and so natural.
My MIL insisted on being called ‘Nana’, (and announced such when visiting us in the hospital, what nerve!) which the five previous grandchildren born before we brought ours into the world went along with. Our two balked, and came up with their own names for her and the FIL. My parents were okay with whatever, as long as it wasn’t ‘Hey-u’.
My mom has lived long enough to have great grandkids (she said she was really old when the oldest of them entered college 
I’s not unusual to get a snail mail card addressed simply to “g-g mom.” I. of course, get “g-Aunt Kim,” but usually via e-mail.
I think my daughter and SIL will likely do the designation; she said something about wanting it to be different as to grandpa Benny and me. So one might be “Papa” and the other “Grandpa” or some such. For the wimminfolk, I did hear possibles like “Grammy” (what our kids called my wife’s mom) or “Mema” (pronounced “mee-maw”) which was my wife’s grandma, or “Mimi”, but the latter might cause confusion, being what my SIL calls his still-living grandmother.
Too late to edit my above but:
Was a brain misfire (hey, only got 2 hrs sleep Sat night) - should have said Ben is paternal grandpa and Ralph was her (my daughter’s) maternal grandpa (or new Ben’s great-grandpa).
ETA:
Sweet story. But I’d be afraid to go that route. We’re still hashing out details, but I might be relatively long-term “grandpa daycare” after her maternity leave is up, so there’s a good chance that his first directed utterance might be at me. And it seems one of the early repetitive sounds a child makes is a “dah-dah” sound (even in languages other than English, where it might have no associated meaning), with more children tending toward lingual sounds early vs labial compression sounds.
I remember I only looked this up because my wife was frustrated that all of our kids seemed to learn to call for me before they did “mah-mah”. Turns out that in those earliest months they weren’t calling for me, really; it’s just a common early language experiment for babies.
That made her feel a bit better, and less like “it’s just like with the dogs all over again”. We’ve had 4 shelter dogs over the years and the first two she picked out, but they bonded strongly with me and just kind of tolerated her. Dogs just glom onto me for some reason - maybe I put off a smell that attracts dogs and repels mosquitoes. Friends’ dogs when I visit, even semi-tame wolves at a wildlife recovery center in South Florida. We visited several times over the years and each time we went into the enclosure, the wolves surrounded me and ignored the rest of the family.
