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I love my home... And yet I d give it up if I could find a way to live near my mom... I know it s a buyer s market right now... I don t need to talk to a real estate agent or mortgage lenders to know that... Just a quick look at the real estate section of the classified ads each week point to falling housing prices and a real buyer s market... I guess I know in my heart that I m in my house to stay... … View Post »

I picked her up yesterday, loaded her luggage and walker into the car and delivered her to my dad... I ve loved tending to my dad this past week or so... He s still aware enough to be able to do many things for himself but is at that age (and stage of Alzheimer s) where he really couldn t care for himself for an entire week without help... And he still has that wonderful sense of humor, too... He said it was good to have his wife home instead of his mother... … View Post »

My niece has graduated from a two year college and is now enrolled in the college (soon to be university) just down the road from me... Her brothers both attended the same school but with football taking up so much of their time, they didn t get to drop by very often... She has such a beautiful smile that she could do advertisements for any dentist who hires her... … View Post »

At the far end of walk-in closet in my mom s upstairs hallway, is a short door that opens up into the attic... When we were kids it was always a magical place since we could peer in as my mom retrieved Christmas decorations or put things inside, but were never allowed to actually go in ourselves... Naturally, I m allowed to go into the attic now and so I did venture in for a few minutes the other day... What I didn t expect to see was the original box from my Kissy doll... My sister and I each got both a Kissy and Chatty Cathy one Christmas... She was probably giving us the things she wished she could have had as a young girl... … View Post »

My mother s house is so ineresting!... My mom has a problem throwing things in the trash... Instead, she has boxes and boxes, drawers and drawers, all filled with things she has to give away... She started telling me how she wants to drop off her old Guidepost magazines in waiting rooms for people to read... Besides all the magazines and books (enough books to stock a small library) my mom has stockpiled trinkets, plaques, women s and men s jewelry , trophies, pens, crayons and markers, VCR tapes (literally hundreds!)... owner manuals for every conceivable product, clothes (some brand new) and holy cards from every person she knows who has died in the past 60 years... … View Post »

About 10 years ago my mom asked my husband to finish a section of her basement to make a bedroom and bathroom for my Aunt Helen... Aunt Helen has been gone for just over a year and that room is still called Aunt Helen s room... Right now she s considering a few of the Santa Fe dehumidifiers but I suppose she won t make a final decision until she gets home from her knee surgery... … View Post »

I ve been relying on my laptop this week and I m realizing it s time for a new one... My desktop computer is much faster so most days my laptop just sits there... Mostly, this old machine just doesn t want to stay connected to the internet wirelessly... If I can t swing it right now, I might just ask for it as a gift for my birthday... … View Post »

My mom s knee surgery seems to have gone well... She says it s hard work and painful but it s getting better every day... My mother hates to be sick and just wants to be left alone when she is... For three days she kept telling us to just stay home, no visits, because she was so nauseous from the pain medicine she was taking... My mother and her roommate have been telling the nurses they re going to sneak out and head down to the Italian Festival to play bocci ball... … View Post »

I think one of the things I worried about when Jesse came home from Hawaii was whether he d be able to find work soon enough... Jesse still has money from his job in Hawaii and is working here, too... We ve been using PayPal to make balance transfers from his account to mine but I think it s time for him to open an account locally... It sure will make life much easier... … View Post »