Today is a beautiful Monday! The sun is shining and life is good! Pat's grilling burgers for supper and we're having sweet corn. Yum! I could make a meal out of sweet corn and tomatoes! We went to the mall earlier for our Auntie Anns pretzel fix. It was the first day I have been out since getting the laser last friday morning. Still can't wear makeup, but at least my face doesn't look like it was overcooked anymore! I'm wearing a grey maxi dress with grey chucks and a pink sweater...I remind myself of Katie Hynes, a dear old friend of our family, who passed away years ago. Kate lived to be about 92 yrs old and in her later years she always wore blue sneaks and she had a blue sweater! She always wore dresses, I never ever saw Kate in a pair of pants. She was a gem...a real angel here on earth! My mom knew her since she (mom) was a little girl, she grew up across the street from her. Kate was a life long friend to us four kids. When Dad took a transfer and we moved my sr yr of high school, Kate moved right along with us! Kate was as close to a saint as I've ever known here on earth! She was a beautiful soul who I miss. I wish I'd have talked to her more about her life. Now that she's gone, and she has no living relatives that we know of, it's too late to ask questions you wish you would have. I wish I'd have asked my grandmas a lot more too. They were both very strong woman who I love and miss a lot too. I am so glad and thankful that I talked to my dad a lot over the years. Dad was such an amazing story teller! He could captivate an audience with his stories! In his older years, when his memory wasn't quite as sharp as it used to be, he'd tell us the same story over and over again, yet we never told him we'd heard it before, because he enthralled us just as much the fifth time as he did the first with his story! I worry about my mom. She still has not accepted Dads passing. She wants to die to be with him again. I pray for her to find a desire to live and for her to find joy in what life she has left. But another part of me looks forward to her passing just as much as she wishes for it, because I know this is what she wants and I know what a sweet reunion it will be for her and dad when they meet again in heaven. Theirs is a true love story! They only knew each other six weeks before getting married and that union lasted for almost 58 years. They had their ups and their downs like all married couples do, but in their golden years they were so in love that you just could not imagine one without the other. As sad as I'll be when mom does pass, I'll be rejoicing with dad and all the other angels in heaven at her arrival back into the arms of her soul mate and true love! thank You Lord for allowing me to belong to my mom and dad here on earth! I couldn't have asked for any better parents!