You have all deeply touched my heart with your heartfelt sentiments and personal experiences. If gives me comfort to know how many caring people make up this wonderful forum. We met with the funeral home and the priest today. The priest who knew my Mom well told us she was the most caring person he had ever met. The priest said "She walked on Holy ground and was a lifeforce. My Mom had a tough life growing up in England with a loss of her father at age 9 and a mother left with 6 kids to feed. My Mom stopped school after 6th grade to work to help her mother out. She came to this country by herself and worked hard her whole life taking care of children of working parents and worked for 50 cents an hour if they could afford it and spent more on feeding them than she made. Put all 4 children thru Catholic schools and took in anyone who needed a meal. or needed a loan. We never had much growing up but we never felt poor only loved. My Mom took care of my father the past 8 years of his failing health and our one regret is that she never had a time in her life when she only had herself to take care of. But caring is what my Mom did best and what we will all miss so much. My father is having an almost impossible time with her loss and we have not left him alone since we told him about my Mom. I do have many fears of trying to take care of him when my siblings go back to their jobs so I am praying for strength to handle that. Thank you for letting me tell you a little bit about my Mom I needed to talk about her tonight. You will never know how much you all mean to me. YT has become my second family and It appears to be as caring as my first. Thank you |