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GentlewoodFarms
March 19, 2018

~ Son ~

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Every weekend, my husband drives to Tulsa to visit his mother, who is living in a memory care unit there. I don't go with him every time, but i do try to go at least once every third week or so, and sometimes I'm even the one to suggest a visit - like I did last Friday.

We always take Mom out to eat somewhere, mostly just to get her outside the walls and interacting with the wider world. Goldies is one of our favorite places. It's been voted Tulsa's best hamburger multiple years running, and we have niece that works there, so Mom gets a double bonus of seeing family - even if she doesn't remember them.

She's always cheerful, always asking what our plans for the rest of the day are, asking where we live ... she's not faking it, she's genuinely interested and wants to have a conversation. It's just limiting because she's got about a two minute memory loop and that means that the conversations can't really GO anywhere.

But family is all about taking care of each other - even when it's hard, and even when they can't remember who you are. And the truth is, I lucked out when I married this man because for the past 30 years, this woman has been my mother-in-law, and she's been wonderful to me and I absolutely adore her.

She was always a little partial to Tom - I'm not sure just why because that's history that I won't ever understand or be a part of. Their story goes back a whole lot farther than his and mine does, and I don't mind sharing him with her at all. After all, she's the one who raised him, and she's the one who taught him how to be the man that he is. I'm so very very lucky.

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Challenge Stack
1. Left Overs - everything you see here is a leftover piece from some other project. The two cardstock frames - I kind of lucked out with those... both were cut and discarded in favor of something else. I'll be sharing the technique for how I did it in the APRIL Leftovers Challenge next month.

2. Monthly Sketch Challenge #3 - Honest. I swear it.

3. Journaling Challenge - This one finishes me up for this challenge with the Journaling Strips category.

4. Foodie - Tom and Mom are walking into Goldies Hamburgers, where we had a fantastic meal of burgers and cold slaw... Always delicious, Goldies is.

5. AGC Project 52, Week #11


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