Thanks Judy

Next to a physician’s stamp of approval or maybe before, your approval has always been very important to me so thanks for sending the previous comment. I will try to keep your wise words in perspective but it is difficult to keep from thinking that with just a little assistance here and there my mom could be functioning well in her former location.

The pressure is off now and she is very relaxed and content as you can see from her photo where she’s wearing someone’s blouse that evidently got mixed up in the laundry. Yesterday she came to my house for dinner and when Brett's family and Ray and Claire arrived she took me aside and suggested that we leave now as it was getting too crowded here. I had to tell her it was my house. It reminded me of some 38 years ago when she came to Everett bringing Cyd with her as Cyd had been staying in Warden while Brett and I went to Dallas for his eye surgery. After about an hour at our house in Everett Cyd said, "Let's go home now, Mommy" to Alberta as she'd been gone from me for several weeks and was ready to pass me off for Grandma in a second.

The state department's travel advisory for Kenya sounds pretty ominous to me. I’m not afraid for my safety but I would not like the hassle involved in getting a passport and or visa replaced in Nairobi which no doubt would be the least of the possible problems.

We had 6-8 inches of snow a few nights ago so I’m almost ready to send a photo to Ron but our snow isn’t quite as high as it is at their cabin. I’m wondering if we have reservations at Vernonia for Memorial Day. Maybe Jill has that answer. Oprah's website says they're looking for reunion stories. Do we have one?