So sorry not to have been able to share a new blog post for awhile. Sadly, Paul's mum passed away just after the New Year. She was 89 years young.
When I first met Paul's mum Elsie, I was newly 22 years old with my first baby who was 2 months old. It was also my first time in a different country other than my own.
Her husband had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Conditions were probably not the best to begin our relationship....
Needless to say we did have some problems those first couple months. Not only were we both experiencing difficult life changing events but I was a young American and she was an "elderly" Englishwoman. We were very different...
However over the following year we slowly became closer until the time when we actually became friends.... and then family....
Over 20 years of grand memories I have of this strong old gal, her wisdom and her generosity; her caring and thoughtful ways and the way that she always retained her girlish charm and youth, yes even at 89 years!
I loved her and she loved me. I will miss her very much. I am sad for those she left behind but so happy for her, that she has gone on to something far more wonderful than even this plentiful life has to offer.
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