triumphgal

06-21-22 Moving Mountains

June 21, 2022

It is the longest day of the year and I am sure my daughters and their stepmom, Deanne are feeling every minute of it as they worked for hours and hours and hours sorting and packing up Rae-Anne’s mother-in-law Judy’s apartment. She is moving Thursday morning from her apartment in Joseph Creek Seniors Villa to a much smaller space in Green Home where she will get the care she needs with the memory loss she is experiencing and will be in the same facility as her husband once again. My Airbnb guest, Katheryn come with me to help after work as she finally gets her apartment on the 30th here in Cranbrook and doesn’t have everything she needs due to her separation. As Judy will now have communal dining and no kitchen, we were so grateful to have someone who needed her kitchen items and bed (which she will get once the move is complete). Katheryn was also a great help moving stuff down to vehicles and is super easy to be around. When we were driving to pick up food and bevies she asked timidly if I would like to hang out once she gets settled here. I am 17 years older than her but we do both seem to share a lot of interests and I look forward to that. She paddle boards and I kayak so we shall have fun doing that together. It will be nice to have a new adventure buddy. I was gifted some treasures from Judy and Ryon’s collection as well. I love the spoons as I was able to choose the ones from places I have been and loved and had the perfect spot for them above my kitchen sink. The lamps are going to be perfect in my bedroom once I redo it and I can’t believe I have an autographed photo of Randy Mantooth, my crush when I was a pre-teen. I looked him up online and at 76 he has not aged especially well, but I shall hang his picture and remember him from back in the day. I wish I knew how Ryon met him! My heart was with our Judy as she was confused where here stuff is going and where she is going. We wrote notes on her dry erase board to remind her, knowing full well she may not remember to look at it. I need to start sorting my shite now to make it easier for my kids some day…