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Because of the loss of my husband’s mom, we have inherited some of the family rings.

It has made me think about how jewelry changes over the years. Yes, there are still the regulation gold bands, even though they do have a little bit of difference in them, too.

Now rings can be made of different types of material. Not just gold any more. There are artcarved wedding bands, hand made rings, factory made rings, imported rings. The list could go on. Have you ever thought about the history of the family jewelry that you have?

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After the holiday, we are still able to give thanks.

We spent the day with family and talked, ate, laughed, and had a great time.

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While waiting to hear about the tape, we ought to clean out our van.

We have a bunch of clothes in it from the last inspection, we need to wash them.
We also have Mom’s step stool that she used to use to get into our van since it is so high. It is not a medical step stool, but it did serve its purpose while she was alive.

I do not know if it would hold my weight. I am not going to tell you my weight, the name of the blog should tell that, sort of.

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Today, mom left us behind.

She was born Aug 12, 1931 and missed many of her family.

Today she went to Heaven and is having a family reunion. She will be missed, but we would not bring her back since she had been in pain. We celebrate her arrival in Heaven and the family she had missed for so long.

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Here is the latest update on Mom and her situation.

She is in the nursing home, her apartment has been cleaned, emptied, and the keys turned in. Electricity, cable TV, phone, and most bills have been taken care of properly.

The only thing that I can think of that has not been fully taken care of is birthday invitations to any family. Most of the family know that she is relocated, and they have fun calling her and talking for long times. (Her phone in her room is provided for a small charge.)

We recently had a family reunion that we were unable to attend, but that is not unusual. Maybe after a while, things will slow down. … Maybe…

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I have seen another commercial again that disturbs me.

This one shows some kids playing and using a cell phone to film it. ‘Dad’ comes in and says it is not being used correctly. He then proceeds to try to knock off the head of his young daughter with the ping-pong ball. If it had hit, it would hurt, I know from personal experience.

He brags that, that is 3D, and tries to act as if he had done something great.

Talk about abuse. This ad abuses my sense of family, proper treatment, everything is wrong with it. Yes, I am griping. There is enough wrong with the world today without adding to it with abusive family acts being advertised.

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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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