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I thought that all across our nation, it was not approved to park within 15 feet of any water hydrant.

It seems that in our neighborhood, the locals do not consider it reasonable to leave the hydrant free of parking cars, trucks, and vans. I had thought that people had learned not to park there when the American Legion building caught fire and the fire department threatened to move a car out of the way by using the fire truck.

Evidently not.

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There are some people in our church who are getting married.

There had been a hold up for a while, but now the ball is rolling. I have no idea what they would like for wedding gifts, but I have a feeling that bridal lingerie would go over great.

David and Tosha do love each other a lot and the people at church are happy for them. Congratulations Guy and Gal!

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Right now, we are just waiting to find out the final results of mom having therapy.

We do not yet know whether or not she will be allowed to go back to her own home, so we wait.

So far so good.

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I thank God that my husband and I do NOT have to worry about planning a funeral for his mom.

With all that she went through in the past month, it has been totally amazing. The type of arrangement that she had wanted did not leave any room for custom floral arrangements for a funeral or even for her grave site. I am thoroughly happy that it has become not necessary.

The only custom floral arrangements that my husband and I could think of were for her to be alive and to enjoy the flowers. She dearly loves flowers and would like to have flowers planted outside of her front window. If I could, I would do just that. However, I do not have a ‘green thumb’. While she was in the hospice, I brought in something unusual that she ended up loving. I had gotten a 3 foot long rose that the flower head was almost a foot across. I sprayed some rose linen spray on it, brought it into her hospice room and her face lit up.

I would love to give her a bunch of living and flourishing plants with a lot of bows on them. She would enjoy that. Me too.

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If I’d known what was going to happen this year, I might have wanted mom to get some extra insurance for just in case.

Of course, the insurance would have been for my husband and I to help with all of the goings on that have been happening. I don’t know if term insurance would pay survivors of such happenings. At least it would have given us something to look forward to after all of the fuss.

Don’t get me wrong now…I am happy that mom is still going and happy herself. I was just thinking of all of the wear and tear on our nerves, health, and finances. Ug, I am still coughing and wheezing like an old accordion. I am so tired of coughing and hacking and scaring people with the way that I sound.

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Mom told my husband and I that she now has a new nickname at the Hospice where she’d been staying.

They call her the “79 year old miracle baby”. Right now she is at a nearby rehabilitation center getting rehabbed for possible return to her home.

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My mother-in-law still lives. Today she is going to be transferred to a nursing home for rehabilitation.

Big change from expecting her to be dead by the fifteenth.

Time will now tell whether or not she can build back her strength to be able to stay at her own place. The people at the hospice call her a ‘79 year old miracle baby’.

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Remember that I had mentioned feeling like a vulture in my previous article?

Some of the things that have happened kind of give me that feeling. She has decided to give some of her stuff away before she dies so that she can decide who gets specific things. She wanted me to have her beading supplies since she knows that I have made many things from beads in the past before.

I wish that this wasn’t needed. I would rather have her, alive and healthy. As it is, time is the only thing ahead right now. She is ready to leave, and is looking forward to seeing family members that have gone ahead of her. A lot of family members have been calling her and talked to her about places and people. I am glad that they called, the time to talk to her is now, before she is gone.

The one thing among many that helps us to let go of her is that she knows Jesus. The other main thing is that she won’t hurt any longer.

It still hurts us, but soon she won’t hurt any longer.

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With all that has been going on, I am worn down.

If there was a multivitamin that could give me the energy, stop the congestion in my chest, and give me back feeling in my face - I WOULD TAKE IT, in a heart beat.

At times, I feel like I am stuck in a waiting game, waiting for mom to die. Other times, I feel almost like a vulture. She is at peace with the thought of leaving, I am not sure that I am yet.

At least at the hospice, she is taken care of and does not feel any pain from her condition. Time, right now, seems to be the main enemy.

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The breach in the family has been mended.

My husband went into talk to his brother, I stayed out in the van. They talked and the misunderstanding was talked about and things were mended.

At this time, knowing the grief to come (it has been edging in anyway), it is very important that there be no bad thoughts or feelings between all family members.

My husband and his brother were raised together and each is their own person with their own ways. I am very glad that things have been straightened out. Thank God for His mercy.

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