Happy Mother's Day

My mom's not online anymore - she gave away her computer because she never used it. Long distance is too cheap these days. So she won't see my post about her here, but I'm writing it anyway.

Today, my mom lives with both her mother (85 years old) and her mother-in-law (89 years old) in Bartlett, TN. She and my dad lived in the same house as his mother, and my father died in 2002. He was the last surviving child, so my mother cares for his mom. Then my other grandmother became unable to live alone. My mother is an only child. My sister tried to care for my Grandma Baker, but Grandma Baker is a "bit" persnickety and made life miserable for my sister and her family. So finally she agreed to stay with my mother. Thank goodness for a large enough house for all of them.

Mama is in poor health herself - diabetes and heart disease - and retired after a mild stroke last year. One grandmother is in decent physical but not mental health. The other is the opposite. Life is a constant 3-ring circus for my mother. Her phone conversations with me are filled with the insanities of the day - one grandmother telling her that she is so glad "they hired you. I might just keep you on after I get well" and the other crying because my mother threw away an empty Kleenex box (she's a full-fledged hoarder).

Hats off to you Mama. I wish I could do more, but Harding isn't moving the main campus to Memphis and y'all aren't moving here (are you?). My sister helps when she can, but she has 3 teenagers going 16 directions right now. I keep telling Mama God is trying to teach all of them something from this lesson. She's not sure what it is, and neither am I. I'm looking for my lesson out of it, too.