prayers requested OT

Ginger, the 29th is a great day to start a trip! That's my
birthday.

Grandma's funeral went well, was a nice ceremony. I hadn't seen her
since this time last year so it was a bit of a shock to see how much
weight she'd lost since the first of the year, but everyone else
thought she looked nice. I wish I had gone to see her when my brother
was here earlier this year, but Dad and I don't always get along on
trips and this was before he had his surgery and all, so he was grumpy
most of the time. I have good memories, and I know that she was ready
to go. Apparently the last thing she said was "Thank you Lord! I'm
ready, take me home." She is greatly missed.

Tigg

I know exactly how you feel. As I read your post... I had that pit in my
stomach. I loved my MIL more than my own mom. My mom and I never got along
and my MIL was my dream mom. We crafted together, cooked.....she taught me
her famous meatballs...and I still miss her. I know if anything with what I
am going through with this breast cancer...if she was alive ...she would
not leave my side. I even showed my mom my mising breast and still no love.
I always said... the wrong mom left me the day my MIL passed. I never
laughed at MIL jokes because I was blessed. She died in 1998 at age 68.
You will always miss your MIL if you loved her that much. It took me 2 years
to get back into crafting and sewing. Everytime I make meatballs her memory
is still with me.
pami

Tigg,
Losing a Grandma is hard to...mine was about the same age as yours when she
passed.
pami

Pami,

it is nice to know someone else who understands...

my mother-in-law showed me more love than my own mom ever did. I miss
her so much!!!!

My mom told me my wedding dress was the 'ugliest thing she had ever
seen' my mil welcomed me with open arms, even though they were a
Catholic family and I was a divorced woman with a child.

She never made me feel that way. She was so good to me and my child,
even though her son and I lost 10 children through miscarriage,
stillbirth and ectopic pg.

She will always be a wonderful person in my eyes... and she is the
example I hope to follow when my own son shows up someday saying 'Mom,
this is the one.'

I have her chow mien homemade recipe and I'm not sure I will ever make
it again. Her's was so good!!

Thanks, Pami
Tricia
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pami wrote:
I know exactly how you feel. As I read your post... I had that pit in my
stomach. I loved my MIL more than my own mom. My mom and I never got along
and my MIL was my dream mom. We crafted together, cooked.....she taught me
her famous meatballs...and I still miss her. I know if anything with what I
am going through with this breast cancer...if she was alive ...she would
not leave my side. I even showed my mom my mising breast and still no love.
I always said... the wrong mom left me the day my MIL passed. I never
laughed at MIL jokes because I was blessed. She died in 1998 at age 68.
You will always miss your MIL if you loved her that much. It took me 2 years
to get back into crafting and sewing. Everytime I make meatballs her memory
is still with me.
pami

I will admit that I had a pretty good MIL, but with the divorce we
don't talk much anymore. I tried to call her the other day and got her
machine. Left a message but she hasn't called me back, and I have a
feeling she won't. I would never ask her to switch her loyalties, but
when we did talk after the divorce, I didn't bring up the ex and didn't
bad mouth him either (at least not to her and then only to my dearest
friends). I do miss her though.

I'm making cookies today. Whenever we'd go visit Grandma, we always
made cookies. Each grandkid had a different kind they made. Mine were
the chocolate no-bake ones, which I have the recipe for in her
handwriting. I'm not making those, but making Daddy's sugar cookies.
Still, I think about her a lot, and probably always will.

Tigg