Again, I have not written in awhile. It has been pretty crazy over here as I’m sure you can imagine. I had to move all of my sites off of my friend’s server and that migration took about a week (this is very slow in IT).
And then there’s Mom. She has surprised us all by being so amenable to moving to Assisted Living. We found a beautiful place called Heartland Health Care which is very close to David. It has a bright and cheery atmosphere, the people are cool, there is a wonderful rehab center, and her room has a door out to the courtyard so she can put a table and some chairs out there.
Yesterday, Mom’s friend from childhood, Emaly, went to the place with us. She used to be an architect so she took measurements and laid out all of the furniture for us, then came home and tagged all the furniture that’s going for the movers. There is an entire floorplan, to scale. It was an amazing thing for her to do, and Emaly, if you are reading, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all of your help these past months.
We have begun packing, but Mom wants to take everything as I’m sure any of us would in her position. So we didn’t get much done yesterday. David is bringing boxes at 10 today and we have a very busy day. We have to sort through all of her clothes and write her name in them as well as empty all of the drawers of the pieces Mom is taking. Most of this is paperwork and mementos so this is going to be difficult. Fortunately, Sissy (Mom’s caretaker) is coming over to help us. Wish us luck!
I will update more as soon as I can. I have several recruiters interested in me in Austin, so we’ll see how that works out.