Beautiful

My mother was on one side of her.  My grandfather on the other. Her breathing had been getting worse.  She had deteriorated quickly over her last hours. She had 8 very bad breaths.  They were quite laboured, but she wasn’t in pain. She turned to my mother and smiled. Then she was gone I love [...]

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She’s gone

I sat down to post that I’d learnt that she had less than 48 hours to live. Then the phone rang. It was my dad. Nana is gone.  Died peacefully. I miss her already.  I’ve been missing her for years as the dementia and mental illness set in.  But now the Nana I knew will [...]

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Cooking up a storm

I spent 3 and a half hours yesterday making a huge pot of spaghetti sauce, letting it cook for a while as I put the kids to bed, then made 3 large lasagnas and 2 small lasagnas.  I had enough sauce left over for 5 spaghetti dinners. I have 2 chicken carcasses boiling in a [...]

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Caring for the caregiver

My mother has decided to bring my grandmother home to die. This was a hard choice for her to make. My grandmother’s mental health has been suffering, and she can be really quite grumpy and angry. But my grandmother asked. And my mother has made it happen. Within a couple of days she has my [...]

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