Spent yesterday and today with the parents who are about to go through a huge change in life.

They’ve been doing that already..90 and 91 years old, it’s time to sell the old family home…home for 62 years…..and will be moving into an extended life/nursing home….it looks like a fantastic place, at times they both seem to be taking it all in stride….and others, well, its a huge step.

Mom’s still pretty cognizant, but a little shaky sometimes, and while not Alzheimers, the cogs just don’t always connect..and dad, well it’s a challenge from being the guy always in charge, to still wanting to be the boss, but also needed help, hearing’s getting to the point where a hearing aid isn’t going to be the answer…..

They both are reminiscing like crazy…I’ve managed to organize their old home movies to help with that, and am now trying to get them all digitized…..

The big move is April 1st/2nd……Easter Weekend….they’re both going through a house full of memories, and a lot of things they’ll have to get rid of….upstairs and down….downstais should be easy as neither can really climb stairs and shoudn’t…..the yard and lawn things will have to go…mom loves her garden, but yet, where they’re going there is a community garden she can work on…

And there will be other people, they’ll be able to socialize, have other people to talk to…and there’s medical people on site if they need…so a better situation.

It’s going to be sad when that home I’ve pretty much only known is gone…….and no one really left in the old neighborhood I grew up in…it was an amazingly perfect childhood…with challenges, but wow when I look back, yes some awful memories, but so many great ones as well….my parents are pretty much the last ones left from those good old days, so one more reason to move on…..

now, I guess as well as memories, time to look forward and to look ahead.

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