Real Life Update — Aug. 6th
Real Life Update — Aug. 6th

Real Life Update — Aug. 6th

Mom’s best friend, Glor­ia, has arrived from Hal­i­fax to spend sev­er­al days with Mom. She is stay­ing down­stairs in mom’s suite, of course, and it’s neat for her to have the run of the place, her own space. She got up in the morn­ing and did her own thing. When she left to vis­it mom, she went out by the back door, and around to where the car is parked. It occurs to me that it was always our plan that mom would use that back door as her main point of entry, that it would be her sep­ar­ate door; that’s why we even installed light­ing around the north side of the house. But she nev­er used it. It also occurs to me that although Glor­ia has been here for two nights, now, she has not once called up the stairs to ask for our help with any­thing. She came up and vis­ited yes­ter­day morn­ing for a while, but bey­ond that she has been totally inde­pend­ent. It occurs to me that if my moth­er had shown that type of inde­pend­ence, our rela­tion­ship over the last year and a half would not have been nearly as strained.