Do you wonder what I've been doing? Well I'll tell you anyway. I've been spending quite a bit of time helping this daughter with her precious three. She had to go to work to make ends meet since she has no husband to help her. They are good kids and usually not much trouble. The littlest one up until this week has called her mommy and me mamma. Now he has learned that I am gamma. The kids have been struggling a bit since their dad left them AGAIN! He volunteered to go to Iraq twice and now he has moved to California, about a 10 hour drive from here. Wonder how often he'll make the effort to come see them?
The other thing I have been spending some time at is one of my favorite places to be.... the candy store :). I am usually there Tues., Thurs night and a Sat. shift and an occasional Fri. night. That hasn't left me a whole lot of time with Randy and so far he's been pretty patient with that. Sometimes he comes to the store and brings me some dinner or just visits when I'm not busy.
The other "event " that has happened recently is my Mother-in-law passed away on November 5th. She was 97 years old! She has spent the last year in a nursing home having to have everything done for her. By the time she died she was a mere skeleton of herself and did not really know who we were. Her hearing and eyesight were pretty much gone and when she did try to talk she was difficult to understand. It was hard to lose her but at the same time it was also good for her to go. She was a very hard worker her whole life. She was an excellent cook....we will miss her pies, rolls and raspberry jam the most. She was very generous with her friends and neighbors, always taking them veggies and fruit from her garden and fruit trees and baked goods from her kitchen. She loved to crochet and all of her children have blankets that she made for them. She also made lots of patchwork quilts and hand stitched them! That is a lost art now, most everyone sews them on sewing machines now. I want to be like her when I grow up. She used to say to my girls "Who loves you?" and they would dutifully reply "Grandma does!" She will be missed.
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