Sandi Chats

Looking around I see that it must be getting close to Christmas. The stores have Christmas displays. We are getting ready for our church Christmas program. Already had one Christmas party and another sheduled for tomorrow afternoon. Even the calendar says December 18th, one week til Christmas.  How did that happen? Suddenly we are here...and almost at the end of 2020!  Our families are talking about plans for the holidays, dates for family get togethers, travel plans, menus for holiday dinners. I see a few households have their Christmas decorations on outdoor display, and probably a lot more have their trees up and decorations noting the holidays in their homes. Here? Well I finally got the Thanksgiving decorations put away since they were looking a bit out of place, but I haven't put  up any Christmas decorations yet. And since there are no celebrations scheduled to take place at our house, this will probably be it. And I'm OK with that, at least I don't have to bother to

  When I last left you, almost a month ago, I was happily sitting on the couch crocheting hot pads, watching fixer-upper TV and enjoying my Covid vacation. As often happens in life, just like that my life changed into something I never saw coming. One minute, living a life of self-centered leisure, and just that fast I am heading to the hospital to be with my mother who was sick. After being moved from Cherry Hills to Cherry County Hospital and from there to Great Plains Regional in North Platte, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, a devastating shock to everyone but her...think she already suspected! In the ensuing weeks since that diagnosis, we have brought her home and set up hospice care and settled into a routine of organizing caregivers and spending many nights with her. This was not something any of us had time to prepare for, we just had to jump in get our feet wet on a moment's notice! Mom is doing as well as can be expected considering the extent to which the cancer ha