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    What they don’t tell you about Estate Sales + Update

    Oh yeah, they don’t tell you THIS about estate sales. You don’t get the whole story. ha. You can watch today’s vlog here. Hope everyone is doing ok this morning. A typical Saturday here for me. Normal morning routines of devo, laundry, lotsa coffee, taking care of doggies, YouTube promotion this morning now that vlog is live. I’ll be doing my walk pad, doing some ironing today (a few things need pressing), a bit of house work, weighing myself (ugh), hair trim, wrapping George’s birthday gifts, planning next week, doing a Target order, editing a video for a sponsor ship, checking on Mom and George wants to get a pre-birthday…

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    I was Wrong. It Wasn’t the Estate Sale After All.

    I guess it’s good that we don’t know how things will turn out, going into them. Sometimes being naive is a blessing, I guess, or you would never agree to do things you do. I wasn’t going to blog today, but here I sit. I’m thinking about the recent events and how taxing and stressful they were. I’m thinking about how family, who is supposed to be the tribe of your people to have your back and have their support, is not always the ones who do. I know we are talking about some who are possibly with the onset of dementia or losing reality, others have their own set…

  • Aging Parents,  Surprises

    A Couple of Surprises – followed by Pizza and Busy Week

    A Couple of Surprises Followed by Pizza Yesterday we had to get up around 5:30 so we could get Mom by 7:15 and get her to an appointment at Centennial (across Nashville in rush hour) by 9:00 a.m. We did it with a few minutes to spare! Mom’s surprised everyone with two things yesterday. 1) She told the nurse practitioner that her UTI was back and she’d had symptoms for a week and a half. 2) She asked for Christmas ornaments from her house. So number 1 is pending and number 2, quite frankly, is concerning. It’s making me think she is really losing her memory. When I told her…