yes i know what i want to do,before she was ill i use to cycle a lot have always wanted to do lands end to john o groats,will do it to raise money for her day centre which is run privatly,plus a few other projects,also carry on showing her wonderful roses she has 28 diffent ones in her garden,just for a laugth we entered some in a competition at village fete and won a cup
Hello. I'm sorry. I lost my own mother on Feb. 28, and sometimes I am overcome with a feeling of needing to weep. She was ailing terribly by the end, so I'm not weeping for the woman who was dying but rather for the one who was my mother even just a couple of years ago.
A rose memory! A rose legacy! Do you hybridize the roses? Might it be possible to work on creating a rose in your mother's memory and giving it her name? I know of one person on here who might be able to give you some tips on this, and I could, were you interested, get you two connected, if you like, by private message.
In the meantime, the evenings . . . perhaps going for a walk, or writing a journal of your thoughts about your mother, or volunteering at a care center might help the evenings go by. I have sometimes thought that when I retire, given what I know now about dementia, I should volunteer at our local county "home," which happens to be in the town where I live. I think it would be a good thing to do, and it might bring me closer to my mother in some small way.
My heart goes out to you and to all of us who have lost loved ones recently and not recently. This is a hard road. Sometimes it's very hard, and other times, it just feels like a necessary road to travel. Keep us posted, webby, on how you are doing?
