WOW! It's been six years since I've been to this site. A lot has happened in that time period. I've had shoulder surgery and about to have surgery on the other one. Bummer! Just as I was getting back into machine embroidery.
My hubby had back surgery last October and he is practically crippled. His legs hurt so badly, it is difficult for him to walk.
I live in a senior retirement community and it has a lot to offer residents. My favorite is the Sewing department. It has seven divisions: sewing, quilting, machine embroidery, needle work, weaving, and Community Service. The Community Service group make clothes for children in the area, small quilts, stuffed toys, tote bags for their moms, and more. We also do quilts for ladies that have had breast cancer. A friend and I enjoy doing quilts for the Caring Quilts department.
I am a great grandma for the first time. My oldest grandson and his wife had a baby girl in March. Her name is Madison. They live in Florida. I crocheted a knot stitch sacqu
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and baby afghan for her. The couple is looking for a house to accommodate the increase in the family. GGD is just adorable.
Used to belong to a writing club called "Compose Yourself." Haven't joined in a few years as my desire to write has waned. I did go over a piece that I had written earlier, called 'A Mouse in the House." It is narrated by a mouse, so to speak, and tells of my family as we grew up in IN.
My goal has been to take my short stories and put them together into a book for my children along with the poems that I wrote, but with my depression, nothing is getting done. Medication doesn't seem to help and along with that insomnia. I am not a spring chicken by any means.
Jim, my husband, had a brother who had Alzheimer's and he passed away in December 2015. I'm now concerned about my hubby having memory problems or it's the pain medication that he's on that's befuddling his brain. (Thank goodness we found that his doc was overmedicating him.)
My sister had open heart surgery (quadruple by-pass) a few years back and then had to have a pace maker put in. She is younger than I. She also has diabetes and pernicious anemia. As if that isn't enough for her to deal with, her husband has now been diagnosed with Parkinson's. (He passed away Jan 8 2019.)
My one daughter, who lives in Florida, has diabetes and had blood clots in her legs that migrated into her lungs. That warranted a hospitalization; and a cyst on her ovary the size of a grapefruit; also hernia from lifting when she managed one of the McDonalds in FL. The eldest daughter in Colorado, had Psoriatic arthritis, Celiac disease, IBS, etc. and a former friend of "Bill." She was quite heavy and has lost 100 pounds mainly due to her illness with stomach and bowels. She was hospitalized twice. Something had perforated her stomach. Then she experienced some bleeding and had to go back for more surgery.
I am not the healthiest person, but I thank God that I have not had to deal with all that. My daughters are too young to deal with all that. I have had my share of surgeries throughout my life though.
A cousin of mine, who lived in Michigan, died in December 2014, without a will. His parents are deceased, he never married and has no children. There were ten (10) heirs on his mother's side of the family to get a portion of the inheritance and ninety-eight (98) heirs on his father's side of the family. Wouldn't you know that is the side I'm on? My grandmother was married twice. Her first husband died of diphtheria circa 1899 along with a boy and girl, all within six (6) months of one another.
Between the two husbands, she had twelve children. Her second husband, my grandfather, had been married before and had one son. Now can you imagine how many heirs come from this large family? All of the original siblings are deceased. The next generation; there are two, sister and I on my dad's side, and on Bailey's side, two are left on the half-brother's/sister's. The rest are filtered down to their children and their children's children, ergo ninety-eight (98).
I tell you, we had one heck of a mess locating all of them. On top of that, we had to provide birth and death certificates for everyone deceased and marriage licenses/certificates, divorces for all of my dad's brothers and sister; whole and half. Also certificates for my grandparents. This got rather costly and a lot of digging on Ancestry.com. It was a benefit in one way, as getting the diagnoses of the causes of death has helped in gathering information for family history. Also aided me in filing out our family tree.
We are now coming to the end of the trials regarding this matter. Hallelujah. I didn't envy the appointed administrator to the estate. He had one large headache.
Enough rambling for this evening....see you on the flip flop.
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