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Melusine and I'm a bad bulb mom
Comments (6)Oh Emerald sounds about as happy as Chico! It was one of those stupid things where there was one layer inside the bulb that was black! That's why cleaning up a bulb makes me nervous when you clean up the neck and you see one dark layer. Are we just getting poorer bulbs? This happened to me with new bulbs this year too. Melusine was only 1 year old and never did much, so I'm guessing that this could have been the problem from Day 1. Sigh...it's hard to figure out what you can't see, that's why I cut her. The bulb seemed solid, but when I gave a gentle squeeze, liquid bubbled from the top. I had visions of her being rotten to the core. It was actually a lot better than I imagined and the 4 pieces are pretty big and just less a few layers. K...See MoreNew BEASTLY Camaro...now I'm drooling...
Comments (14)Nice looking, but not sleek or sporty like the old classic Camaros. Kinda 'fat' in the body lines, which I guess would match up with the body lines of a lot of the baby boomers that might be wanting to buy it. LOL My mom had a 1967 Mustang. My brother restored cars, so had a whole string of Corvettes, including a 67 split window that was featured on some car magazines. He had a blower on it at one point, and got to run the car on the track at Indy. In my pre-marriage days, I was the queen of Armor-All and q-tips to get the cars ready for showing at McCormick Place in Chicago every year. Be sure to post a pix if you get one, Faron - with you behind the wheel!...See MoreMom died and I'm having such a hard time
Comments (21)Dear Deb, My heart goes out to you as you try to belileve in a life after this one. My faith was stringhtened by being with my Momma when she died. Not because I was just with her. But because I witnessed something I can not explaine, to myself or to others. I was sitting on the sofa that day and I noticed that my Mom's breathing was odd. They call it 'fish out of water breathing'. It went on for a while and we could not get her to rouse up or respond in anyway. We knew it was her time to pass and my sister and I sat on either side of her, each holding a hand. Just before she died she opened her eyes, focused on something over our sholders and shook off our hands, and raised her arms, then in weakness her arms fell down, once more before her very last breath she shook off our hands and reached up her arms, like a small child asking to be held, her eyes opened and tears sprung into them, she had a look of complete surprise, then she smiled a small smile and exhaled. That was it, she was gone. I looked at my sister and said 'did you see that too'? And my sister said she had. I was stunned. My Momma saw something or someone I could not see. I remember looking back over my sholder to see what she was looking at. I know she was reaching up to hold someone, she was happy to see them. Was it my Dad who had died a year before, or her parents who had been gone many years? I guess I will not know who came to get her until I see her again... I only know without doubt that my Mom died in front of me and she went from our hands into the arms of someone unseen by us. I believe it was my Dad. That expierence changed me and gave me a stringth in my faith like nothing else I have expierenced so far in my short 50 years. So I can tell you without doubt, I know there is another life beyond this life. I hope this can help you. I do not tell this to many people because in the retelling with just mere words, I can not convey the awe, or magnitute of the expierence itself. I pray that you will find comfort soon. For me, grief has been like the sharp edge of a knife that cuts away at my soul, and time has been the only substance that has been able to dull the edge of the knife. I send you love and positive energy for healing....See MoreSo now I'm the 'organized mom?'
Comments (13)well, I know why they don't "get it"--it ain't that easy to think of all the stuff you'll need, and carve out time to assemble it, etc. It's easy to end up so focused on the most obvious stuff tha tyou forget the little extras--and they are sort of extra. Gloria knows what an accomplishment it is, to be that "organied mom" in the group. That means that the REST of her life runs smoothly, so she doesn't have to pack for her kids, run around cleaning at the last minute before the trip, etc. She has time in her schedule and space in her brain to figure out all those things she can bring to make life easier. Or, it means she has organized her purse, overnight bag, etc., so that the useful little equipment is just always there. Congrats! And I know how you feel about worry that you'll end up WITHOUT the scissors because someone borrowed them. And yet, you can't really say "sorry, no you can't use them," can you? But especially if you're equipped "kits" of stuff, it really is a worry that they'll end up incomplete, and you won't realize it until you're wanting yours scissors and they're not there. I'm the medium-organized one, so I know what it's like to be in each camp. And those of us who didn't thinka bout bringing scissors on a trip to Reno are grateful to you, Gloria! (but I'm actually most likely to be the "resourceful" one instead of the "organized" one; I'll find some OTHER way to cut through whatever it was that needed cutting, or some other place to borrow scissors, etc.)...See MoreRelated Professionals
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