A New Home

Our new home!  

Mom‘s home is the one with the brick on the left and ours is on the right. Nice and close!

Here are just a few photos of the living room and dining room. Everything you see in the pictures I’ll be sharing with you over the next few posts, are the things that the previous owner left for us. Mandy took these photos today. She is over choosing some paint colors and she opened all the windows to get some fresh air inside. As I’ve said before, you are seeing exactly what I have seen of the house. It is all new to me! Having never walked through, it will be an adventure when we arrive.

I have been told that all of the windows in the house are the kind that tilt in so you can clean the outside of the windows from inside of the house. I really like that idea. The blue material leaning against the sofa on the right contains the leaves for the dining room table.

The beautiful hutch that they left!  Can you believe they gave all of this furniture and everything on the walls to us?  They also left a carpet cleaner and vacuum cleaner.

I will share more photos with you over the next few posts. 

I have made some mittens over the past week.

Few more pair!

It has been a week. We closed on the house on Tuesday and I spent a few days arranging utilities and meter readings and all of that fun stuff from a distance. I honestly don’t know what we would do without Mandy. She has been there for us every step of the way. A locksmith changed all of the locks on Thursday.

Mom got her second Moderna shot on Friday morning. I spoke with her that evening and so did Dennis’s brother. She was fine, with just a little sore arm. Dennis tried to call her at his usual time early Saturday morning and she didn’t answer the phone. Very unusual. He waited a few minutes and tried again. Several other family members tried to reach her and she didn’t answer the phone. We were starting to worry because that is so unlike her. He called Mandy who ran to her Grandma’s house just as fast as she could get there, which is about a half hour drive. She couldn’t get in because the locks were changed not long ago and Grandma is always there, so she didn’t need to have a key! She called Dennis and he stayed on the phone with her and told her to call the fire department. Long story short, they couldn’t get in through any windows or doors so they ended up kicking the door down. They found her on the floor where she had been all night. She was not able to walk. Her blood sugar very high and so is her blood pressure. When the EMT had Mandy come in the room he asked mom who she was and she couldn’t say her name.  Needless say, she was taken to the hospital where she remains today. Mandy stayed with her until last night which was wonderful. As a nurse she was able to answer all of their questions and understand everything that the doctors were saying. Mom would have never remembered any of it. Mandy also did most of her care yesterday from what I understand. Only one family member can be there per day. It has to be the same family member each day. Our niece Jessie is there today with her. She still cannot walk alone and her blood sugar is still quite high. She will be there at least another day or two. She is also running a fever of 102. No one knows if any of it has to do with the vaccine or the result of an infection she has. Honestly? I do not know what we would have done if Mandy didn’t live there. She was the one person that knew exactly what to do for mom and how to take care of her.

This has all just solidified in our minds the fact that we are making the right decision in going home and moving next-door. Instead of waiting until September, I am planning to go back the first week of May and just stay there. I am getting my first Pfizer vaccine injection tomorrow and I imagine the second one will be in three weeks. If I have to I can leave after that, but I’m hoping to be able to wait and go with Dennis the first part of May. The problem is, everyone else back there has commitments and can’t be with Grandma everyday. They either work full-time or go to school.

I hope all is well with all of you. I’ll check in again later.

Blessings and love,

Betsy