Cookie Time and Normal Life

The cookies have arrived. As if there wasn't already enough to do...now there are 300 boxes of GS cookies to distribute. That would be $1074 worth. It will give us something to do...

All joking aside; my mom needs something to do. She is not doing well. She remembers certain things really well, but then with other things she doesn't fare quite as well, and the nights are really tough. I think she will need a year's supply of Ambien.

I have asked her to please not throw anything away, but since she is in even a bigger "hog" than I am, she doesn't always comply. And the things she keeps are not valuable, whereas she went to pitch a couple of photos the other day that had quite a bit of significance to me from my childhood. I am daunted by the fact that basically every item in my parent's apartment of almost 50 years will need to pass through my hands before being trashed or treasured.

That will be my job for the foreseeable future and probably well beyond.

Thank God for my church family and friends. We haven't eaten this well, I think, ever...it is such a blessing as I float from laundry to cookie delivery, to phone call, to errand, to hug, to negotiating through the aftermath of death. There is so much to learn and the crash course isn't the way to do it. And the stories....yes, another book.