Sunday, July 26, 2020

My mom is moving

I'm not sure if I have mentioned this, but my mother is moving.  She has decided to move into what was my grandparents' house.  To be honest, I've never thought this was a good idea.  The house in which she currently lives is smaller, has a smaller lot, is in a lovely little neighborhood, and is completely handicap accessible.  Every in the family loves my grandparents' house though, and my grandparents built it in 1952 so it's never been out of the family.  My grandmother left the house is absolutely horrific condition.  I'm not sure she had thrown anything away in years.  My sister has been helping a lot, and a good friend of my mother has been very helpful as well.  My cousin and her family have also been at the house a lot.  Our family was trying to be helpful, but we also needed to get ready for Catherine's grad party a couple of weeks ago.  And when Catherine's episodes began happening, mom understood that I needed to be here and focus on life here.  Today though, I was able to make a trip back to Mom's and be helpful.   I know how quickly she wants this done, and to be honest, it just adds to my stress.  In many ways, if school does go remote again, it would give me more time to be helpful, and might even do me good to get out of the house if everyone else is here.  Mom is hoping that she can host Christmas this year.  That would be helpful!

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