I was visiting with MIL a couple days ago, she said "Except for the election, this has been the WORST year I can ever remember".
Yup, that pretty much sums it up for me too. Maybe it took it getting THAT bad in order to motivate the change. When I think back to right after 9-11, when we were all asking 'what can WE do? -- how can WE help?' how different might things be today if the answer we had been given had been something other than "SHOP" ????!!?! Enough to make you crazy if you dwell on it for long, isn't it?
The good news of the week has been that said MIL is resting comfortably in her own beautiful home, moving between her own bed, her lazy boy, her wheel chair and the bathroom. Since Christmas she has been visited by all nine of her children, and 16 out of 20 of the grandchildren, a sister and her husband, a brother-in-law and his daughter, and a sister-in-law, and many friends.
My 2009 wish for us all is many more days with good health for us all, to spend enjoying each other's company.
And a hope for better days ahead...
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