My thoughts are:
1. It may just be a combination of all that's on your mind and your feeling a loss because of the where-abouts of your step mother since her passing, meaning she is no longer with you.
2.Or...being that the directors refused to give the info makes me think there is an underlying secret of some sort, only because it wasn't like they didn't know the where-abouts, but they refused to tell.
3. My last thought is concerning your father, maybe he is really at a loss and is keeping it a secret and not showing it. If this is the case, just pray for him, love him and listen to him so can be comforted too.

I am sorry for you loss, my dad passed last year and its not easy coping with the death of a loved one, my only comfort is knowing he is no longer suffering like he was but I still miss him. Hope if nothing else that you can just get peace and not let this dream bother you probably just all your going through. Hang in there!

It is a fairly normal dream. You felt the loss of your step-mother keenly and it can seem like the world should stop completely while you morn for her. But the fact is that the world goes on. Things like vacations and celebrations can seem bizarre and inappropriate for a while after you lose someone, but they are part of life all the time - birthdays and weddings and births will still be celebrated.

It only means that you are still grieving and the world seems oddly light-hearted in comparison. The feeling will pass over time. In the meantime, I really recommend starting a journal about all the things you can think of that are unique to your step-mother. When we lose someone we are also afraid of losing their memory and we also can lose touch with the good times we have had with them during our grief - so by writing down saying she liked and jokes she told and foods she refused to eat - all that stuff - you are both reminding yourself that the relationship was not about losing her, it was about the time that you had her in your life. And you are writing things down (keep doing this for a while - things will keep occuring to you) so that you will not forget even the smallest details and you can take the journal out and read it when you miss her and she will feel closer to you. This is a great way to help work through the loss of anyone you really cared about and who was an important person in your life. It just takes some time to heal, but you will.

it probably doesn't mean anything, its just your unconscious trying to make since of recent events... I've had some VERY strange dreams.... so I did a lot of research on this topic... Sigmund Freud's theory that dreams mean something deeper doesn't seem realistic to me, but you can decide that