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Were you able to give thanks this holiday? We were and are able to give thanks. We are alive; we have shelter, food, and family.
This Thanksgiving we spent time with family and had a good time. Nothing fancy, but a good time nevertheless.
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After what we have gone through lately, my mind has wandered over a lot of different things.
Mom left to go home with Jesus. She did not leave a will. She did leave a lot of memories.
If I left right now, I would not leave much behind but bills. I have thought about [...]
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Just thinking about that time at Grandpa and Grandma’s makes me wish that I could have had a camera, or video camera handy to take her picture and see the expression on her face when he got done with the fireplace.
We have cameras now, but not enough camera cases for the ones that we do [...]
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I remember a time when Grandpa ( Foster K. Baker) decided to make a fireplace in his country home in Arkansas.
He picked out a good one from a choice of fireplace mantels. He then built a beautiful fireplace made with natural stone that covered the end of the huge living room that he had [...]
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Today Dorothy Peterson went home to Heaven.
She was born Aug 12,1931.
She loved the Lord, her family, and those she adopted as her ‘kids’.
Her family celebrates her arrival in Heaven and the family reunion she is having with loved ones who have gone on before. She no longer hurts.
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No, I am not feeling that way. Mom’s former apartment is empty now.
It took a lot of work, sorting, boxing, packing. I had not quite realized just how much stuff she had. Her son from Arkansas did a lot of the sorting, boxing, piling, and stuff.
Just in books alone, there were 10 [...]
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Just think, the Fourth of July is now past. Soon, people will wonder what type of college grad gift to get their adult child. Then will come the time that kids start school again.
Of course I imagine that some parents will be happy to have school start again. Then shortly there are [...]
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Mom is over at the nursing home getting rehab right now, I would dearly love to give something to her to help cheer her up.
When she was down in the hospice, we gave her a giant rose that smelled live a rose. It is approximately 3′ long. I have never seen another one [...]
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One thing that has been asked of us lately has been are we able. My mother-in-law is in nursing home betting rehab. She seriously wants to go home, but we are not able to help her out the way that she needs right now.
The therapists and doctors are evaluating her to [...]
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There is nothing much going on right now.
Mom is still at the nursing home, they are still giving her therapy to see if she would be able to go back to her home.
We are just waiting to find out what is going to happen next.
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