Project 52

[mrs_sweetpeach]

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I have so many thoughts swimming madly around my brain I can't figure out what to say. As you may have read on today's page, I learned my mother had passed away Friday night. She'd been fine the night before, called the nurse to help her to the restroom and afterwards said she wanted to sit in her chair and watch tv for a while. When they checked in again with her at 4 am she was dead. So it sounds like she passed peacefully in her sleep which seems to me to be one of the best ways to go. The visitation will take place tomorrow and the funeral on Friday.

I told my sister that mom's death hasn't really hit me yet. The hardest I've felt her loss was while looking through my photo albums for good photos of mom and I found some I wanted to ask her about. I also learned I have a more photos than I thought as it took something like four and a half hours to go through the first 29 (of 135) directories of photos. My brother wanted photos for the visitation and that's when I ran out of time to submit them.

Before Jebra came home and told me, I'd been online with the Cranky Women and hearing what's going on with everyone.

On Saturday we got up, ate a quick breakfast and then went to Dearborn for our first in-person Ingress First Saturday event since the start of COVID. It was very hot but I was delighted to meet players in person and fit some faces to player names. I spent most of my time recharging portals and petting one of the other player's dog. I still managed to get the highest score on recharges and Jebra came in second place, which was, I believe, the highest he's ever gotten in recharges. Next up was a trip to Wendy's for a quick bite and then to Speedway for one of their lemon-flavored slurpees, which I had been craving ever since I had my first one the week before. From there we drove to Ann Arbor for an in-person SEMGS which was very nice.

Sunday was my online knitting group and then off to the FCB's annual picnic in Farmington or Farmington Hills. That was nice too but not nearly as large as the one last year. We left a little early, hurried home to feed Fiona her first dinner, then drove over to the Salvation Army Church for the Five Lakes Silver Band concert. Which was excellent and gave me a reason to see the inside of the church. I'd been wondering about it for years.

Monday and Tuesday were normal work days and I spent the evenings watching The Curious Case of Natalia Grace on Discovery ID. That was one of the most confusing things I have ever seen. Everyone interviewed had such different experiences with the Barnett family it was like looking through a kaleidoscope. After watching the entire thing I'm not sure what really happened or whether the parents were guilty of child neglect.

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Comments

[silver_chipmunk]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Thank you.

[wpadmirer]

I'm so sorry to hear about your mother, and I send you massive amounts of love.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Awww, thank you!

[siberian_skys]

I am so sorry, sweetie. I've been there. If you need to talk to me you can any time. I wish I had some sage advice. I'm still struggling. But, I have found that talking to friends help. Hugs.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I'm doing okay and expect that will continue. I do wish I could talk with her. Leave it to me to think of the millions of things I should have asked about before her strokes and her death. Asking before she started having strokes would have been good as afterwards she was missing a ton of memories.

I know I can't rely on my siblings' memories either as my sister (who is convinced she can identify everyone in the old photo albums) miss-identified one of her uncles, according to the uncle himself who declared, when we were looking, "That's me!" LOL

[siberian_skys]

I know how that is. I don't have siblings to even ask. I thought I'd asked her about the pictures and things, but I keep thinking about things that IU wished I'd asked her about. I'm glad that you're doing okay. I've been thinking about you.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

No aunts or uncles either?

I'm doing okay other than wishing I could call her up on the phone.

[siberian_skys]

My Mom was an only child and my father's siblings are all gone along with my father. I have cousins, but not near by.

It takes a long time to not have that feeling of wanting to pick-up the phone. It's been almost 3 years and I still have that feeling.