We lost two elderly relatives this past summer. They were both in the last half of their nineties so maybe we would have lost them anyway, however I believe they died from lack of connection during this COVID environment. Neither of them had COVID, however I believe they were still indirect casualties of COVID.
My […]
My husband came back yesterday from a week-long trip, with face tanned and looking relaxed. He had flown to another state to my oldest son’s house and then they drove north a day and a half to a remote lodge to go fly fishing.
They had been talking about doing a fishing trip together for […]
My youngest daughter is going to turn 24 in about a week. I still remember coming home from the airport with her so many years ago. She was 2 ½ years old and we were bringing her to our home from China. I clearly remember thinking as we drove to our home, that this […]
I got a call this week from a nurse about my 98-year-old aunt. My aunt has been in a nursing home for almost five years after a fall that broke a bone in her upper leg and left her too weak to walk. The nursing home has taken excellent care of her over the […]
I have written a lot of blogs over the last six years and I think this is the first time I have written one specifically about my husband. I am going to write about him today because I have been thinking this week about the little things he does that mean a lot to […]
We celebrated Independence Day today. Some of our adult kids in the area came by for our traditional BBQ and a long-time family friends’ daughter came by as well…she is an honorary “one of our kids”. It just happened that today was also the Saturday in which we normally have our 6-year-old granddaughter for […]
I was with a 95 year old relative when she passed away yesterday afternoon; I will call her E. She had been living alone in an assisted living apartment and had fallen a couple of weeks ago. Due to the pandemic, meals had been brought to her apartment instead of eating in the dining […]
In the past few months, I have often heard, “If you love your elderly relative, don’t hug them”. I took that to heart with my husband’s grandmother, not even visiting her from late April until last week. I knew I would feel terrible if I inadvertently passed on COVID to her. At 104, she […]
A year ago, my sister and I looked at our calendars to see when our respective kids would have graduations as we wanted to be able to attend each kid’s special day. Who knew that everything would be virtual?
My second oldest son graduated from college last week. Although he was not planning on “walking […]
I have been watching how my six year old granddaughter deals with the COVID crisis and “shelter in place” guidelines. I have decided that there are lessons that she (and other kids as well) can give us “grown-ups” during this time.
Here are a few:
Be Kind to Others. It Helps. Our granddaughter showed kindness recently […]
