The road home…

This has been on our minds for a long time. It has been several years in the making and so did not turn out the way we thought it would.
The conversation always went round and round, the timing was never quite right and then in the blink of an eye it just was. The phone rang and there was this confused tired person on the other end so unlike my perky mom. She couldn’t find something, couldn’t get something else to work and just plain didn’t want to be there on her own any more. Would I please come now. So I did. I got in a plane, rented a car and walked through the kitchen door a scant 20 hours later. That is how it works, in the blink of an eye life changes……….
We had a plan, my older sister and I. We did all things m&d together for the past few years; Dads dementia, Moms cancer. We had a plan until she left us unexpectedly on a Sunday 10 days after Dad. Everything changed in the blink of an eye, but life is like that.
So, we are on the road home together. Figuring things out as we go along. Getting some things right and fine tuning others. Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry and then others we shrug and say what you gonna do. One foot in front of the other, one day at a time and we will bring mom home together. We will make new memories, laugh and cry sometimes but, we will enjoy each moment of the ride. Savor the moments and look forward to seeing what lies in wait for us on the road home.