When you commit to blogging for 52 weeks you must blog every week regardless of what is happening in your personal life. Due to vacation, training away from home, and a quick Valentine's getaway my suitcases have had the biggest workout they have ever had. Add to this our youngest is here visiting, and we have plans. My time with the computer has been seriously impacted this past couple of weeks.
What is a blogger to do when the BLOG MUST GO ON!
Sometimes your best is not required. Just get the damn thing done!
Words to live by!!!
Today I write about my mom who passed away in 2015. About a month before she died we were in the mall killing time (having no idea she would be gone in just a few weeks, and I would give anything back to have been more present at that very moment) between some medical tests, and she admired the colour of a pink hoody. My mom seriously loved hoodies. I left her drinking coffee (the only thing she really loved more than hoodies was coffee out), and snuck back to buy her that hoody for the upcoming Valentine's Day. I hid it in the over-sized handbag I was carrying at the time. When I gave her the hoody with chocolate and a card on Valentine's Day I had no idea it was the last present I would ever give her. I come from a family that lives to 100. There was no way I could imagine that my mom would die at 65.
Ancestry DNA was not available in Canada yet so I was unable to get her to do it before it was too late. Her mom and sister agreed to stand in, and completed their Ancestry DNA for me not so long ago. I am so grateful they did.
I encourage those researching to not necessarily choose the older folks to ask for DNA samples for genealogy testing. You never know who is currently having their last special day.
On holidays and celebrations I am keenly aware that my mom is not here to share them with me. I don't miss her less on regular days. I miss knowing she is out there somewhere EVERY DAMN DAY!
I can almost hear her voice when I think about her telling me that she loved me to the moon and back again!
This is why I search -
Cause ...
You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family you know!
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