Tomorrow my Uncle Jerry flies home to Colorado. So tonight he brought Mom's car back. We had a take and bake pizza and looked at pictures. He told me I need to get the pictures scanned. I totally agree but am just overwhelmed at how daunting of a task that would be.
Mom had gotten a little emotional. Jerry suggested that perhaps it was time to not bring her back to the house. Maybe it is just how overwhelmed she is with emotions with his visit and maybe not. It's not going to get better.
He suggested I take her permission to give stuff to the good will or have a yard sale and do that. And that I don't say anything more about it. He understood how hard it is to decide to get rid of stuff. Garbage and recycles are easy. But the rest is hard. But I have to do it or we truly can't settle in and make this place home.
We had a good visit. This is the most time we have had with him and we enjoyed it. We reminisced. We liked that somone was thoughtful and had labelled a lot of the pictures. I was glad to spend some time with someone who has been through all of this before and was able to tell me I'm doing a good job. One day at a time.
Thanks for all the advice Uncle Jerry and thanks to all who are going through this journey with me.
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