today - dealing with backlogs
Today is the 3rd anniversary of Mom's death. In a way that is recent I suppose but it seems a world away now. I still have a backlog of stuff to clean up from those days of Mom, Dad and John living next door - in their garage (Jules' garage now) and in our basement. Yesterday I did make an attempt to deal with the basement and worked a couple hours
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I woke up thinking of mom this morning. Jane (Vince's wife next door) died last night and her condition for the last 10 years was so similar to mom's. Three years doesn't seem that long ago, but I think as we get older
all time to us seems to go by faster. I think after mom died and we were immediately trying to sort through all the family things, I can remember so much that we didn't want to get rid of, so we kept it. Now we feel differently about some of those things. Maybe it was too soon, especially for us so in mourning and not knowing what to do with so much of their things. We were overwhelmed, the two daughters, but we did the best we could at the time, and what we thought was right.
I love the first photo....charming. The first thing though that came to mind when I saw it was, "you are our mother." She used to have a card table set up in the living room with all the finances on it for sometimes months at a time. I often say to myself, too, "I am my mother," and I am in so many ways, and I'm glad....
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Those bins that we packed at the time of mom's passing have been put away in an out of the way place for now. I don't want to open them again till I do it with you. We did do the best we could and I think we did a good job of deciding what to put in them at that time, but I don't want to revisit it for a long time yet.
I really like using the little table for financial stuff. Kind of perfect there. No one usually wants to sit at it anyway so it's not like I am cluttering up a dining surface.
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