OCTOBER 3, 2020
Hard to believe it has been 6 months since our last blog!
So little has happened and so much has happened since April.
This blog will be short on pictures as I am having trouble uploading them but have received so many inquiries as to where we are and how we are wanted to bring you all up to date.
We are still in Illinois and will be here for the rest of October. At which time we will head to Peoria, IL, about 3 hours southwest of here, to attend our godson's wedding and then will continue out to Benson, AZ where we like to spend winters.
We have have been in IL much longer than normal, due to Covid changing all of our spring plans, but have had the opportunity to visit with some of our friends and family. Everyone is doing there best to stay healthy of course.
We did leave for the month of July to do a SOWER mission project just about an hour from here in Wisconsin.
The end of August we traveled to Wausau, WI to attend my 2nd cousins wedding. We went up the day before and helped set up the reception, in a very airy open barn. The day of the wedding the weather was perfect(the wedding was outside) and it was one of the most beautiful weddings we have ever attended. The bride was beyond beautiful and the vows they wrote to each other were so awesome - I don't believe there was a dry eye. Because of our concern for Covid and my having to be extra careful as mom was declining and my not wanting to be quarantined from going in if she needed help we did not attend the reception which was a very hard decision-broke my heart as we pulled away.
My mom, in an independent living facility, so we couldn't go inside these past months, but thank God that she had a first floor apartment - so lots and lots of window visits. Did get to be with her a few times. Twice to routine doctor visits and in August for her 97th birthday they brought her outside and we were allowed to sing to her, with masks on, and visit a little. Her 3 children, our spouses, her grandson and great grandson were all there with balloons to celebrate her. She had a doctor visit on September 1st and was declining but with her walker walked in and walked out and we thought everything was status quo. So Jerry and I left to attend the wedding mentioned above the day after her doctors's appointment - Suddenly mom took a huge turn and even though in WI we had her on hospice by Friday night. We got home Sunday and visited through the window with her - she was talking but was very tired and slept a lot. Wednesday they started letting us into visit with her as the decline was so rapid. My brother who lives out of town spent Thursday with her. Friday the rest of her immediate family was allowed in. She was aware everyone was there and responded but in very short answers. Her prayer had been that she would go to sleep and not wake up when her time came. Late Friday afternoon she went to sleep and passed early Saturday morning. Total peace and in no pain. She had nothing wrong with her just old age. She had written what she wanted for her service: songs, readings - who she wanted to do the readings so the following Saturday we held a very small service and celebrated her life.
I am so grateful that we were in town and even though covid kept us from going in her apartment we had so many fun window visits for 5 months. Also blessed to have had this amazing woman in my life for 73 years. She was ready to go, daily living was getting so hard for her, and she knew she would be reunited in heaven with so many loved ones that had gone before her.
So the last few weeks have been spent cleaning her apartment and doing paperwork.
As hard as it was to say goodbye she had a good life, a peaceful death and knew how much we all loved her.
So like I said at the beginning so little has happened because of Covid and so much has happened because of my mom.
Hopefully I can figure out my picture issue for the next blog.
Please let us know how you are doing? We pray that everyone is healthy and that our paths will cross sooner than later.
God Bless, Carol & Jerry
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