Ellen, Do you mind a ((((HUG))))?
I’m really sorry you are not up right now. Grieving take so much energy. Please be extra kind to yourself. Maybe take an epsom salts bath, knit, read a humourous book, knit, have a little chocolate, knit.
Oh… if you want a FUN read, and since you have grandsons you might doubly enjoy this book, you might try “Helen’s Babies” by John Habberton. You can find it here for free online (Scroll past the gutternburg info to get to the text) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/babie10.txt at the online book source (for out of copyright books), you can also often find a hard copy on ebay or at a used book store.
I laughed so hard, right outloud, when I read this book, that my family would always be saying… what?? What? what’s so funny? After reading them a few excerpts I just started over and read the entire book outloud to them!
Some of those 80 and 90 year olds can be AMAZING! I used to teach continuing education classes for a independent living retirement community. I was in my 30’s at the time and some of my “student” there made me feel OLD and sluggish. My FIL could work any of us under the table almost till the day he died.
“We are sorry we won’t be in your class next week, we are off for a trip to Greece, where we will hike across the island and then go on a walking tour of Italy after that. Ooops… we have to run, our tennis match starts in 15 minutes and then we are off to run errands for the afternoon before we meet friends for dinner, and tomorrow we are redoing our flower beds and putting in a new lawn.”
I would get tired just HEARING about their schedules!
Mama Bear