We finished fixing up the apartment for Gramma today and delivered her. Last seen she was having lunch, very enthusiastically visiting with two other women. Her apartment looks great...although we didn't get a great positive reaction. Her comment on my dresser that I gave her is that she thought the place could have given her a better piece of furniture. Oh, well, I guess this is our lesson in not needing credit for good deeds!!! Of course, she is convinced that she is giving us all of her furniture that would not fit. The last minute stuff this morning took longer than expected so...by the time we got home, she had removed everything from the drawers in her bathroom, put out the flag afghan to take, packed our wedding albums...etc, etc...a real mess. She commented on the way down that she had forgotten her clock (the clock that we gave Dad for his retirement). This change could not have been too soon. I am so relieved. This is the first time since November (except for when Lisa and Meredith came last weekend) that I have been home without her presence. She doesn't have a phone until tomorrow night so we fortunately will not hear from her. Dad is taking a phone over tomorrow night and I have to take her to the doctors on Thursday afternoon. She wants to try out her new ward so I will take her there on Sunday....it doesn't cross over our church. I don't think we will take her back here for anything for at least 3 weeks...Dad says never. This has been even harder on him than on me. It is really difficult to see your mother be so loony.

Well, I have to do bills, and clean up after her rampage today. I tried to do bills yesterday but she kept asking where I had gone...and I am sure driving Brent out of his mind! If I get like that...please, please put me in assisted living right away...don't even try to take me in your homes. I would not want to curse anyone with what we have gone through these past three months.

Love you all,

Mom