If it's Mother's Day Saturday, then typically you would see me at the greenhouse buying scads of annuals and geraniums to plant in momma's garden!
This was the last Mother's Day I celebrated with momma at her house in 2011.. She was 89...
This was the last time Mom and Dad ate around our table... in 2012.
it was July and we were celebrating Dad's and my birthdays..Momma fell and broke a vertebra in her back in November that year and they moved into assisted living for a year, then on into nursing homes the year following... Dad passed in December of 2013, and Mother this past December.. at age 94 and 91 respectively. It was a very difficult 3 years for us all. It is so difficult to see your loving parents suffer for so long.... slip into such a devastating decline.
They celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary while in the nursing home. Their's was a match made in heaven,, and to heaven they have now have returned! I love and miss you, both!
Happy Pink Saturday.... visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound.
That is a truly wonderful story--70 years WOW and still sweethearts. Your Mom was so pretty. My Mama is 88 and has had 3 bad falls--she is still doing OK.
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What a great tribute to your parents. I lost mine very young. You were fortunate in some ways to have had them so long.
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