Happy Holidays!

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Happy Holidays!

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season.

I have been MIA. My husbands mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer and we hospiced her in our home until she passed in October. Needless to say It was a very tough fall in the McBride household. I hope to get back into the swing of things this winter. Hopefully my holiday pictures will give me something to scrap about!

Blessings to all, I look forward to hanging out again!

Sorry for your loss, and I suspect this Christmas might still be a little sad since it's the first one without her, but it's good to have you back! I look forward to seeing some more of your awesome layouts! smiley

You and your hubby are awesome to enable his mother to be at home and not alone ... bless you both .... it is so hard loosing a parent this way ... wishing you and your family a serene Christmas holiday remembering the wonderful things about your MIL...take care

I am sorry for your loss, that was so wonderful of you & your hubby to do hospice care at home, My Aunt died in 2013 and she did hospice at home also.

Thanks everyone. It was truly a blessing to our family. It was good for our young adult and teen kids to learn a lesson in treating sick people with dignity. It taught the great grandchildren that sick and dying people still need to be hugged and shouldn't be feared even though they may look scary. It gave us as much time with her as possible, and I believe we helped her feel as much love as possible through such a hard time. We were so blessed that it worked out so that we could care for her. So many families don't have that option. I am trying to formulate some layouts in my mind dedicated to her, but it is still very fresh and painful.

I hear you on the "still fresh" part--I still haven't figured out what I want to do for layouts of my grandmother who passed in July. (Of course, I also want to create a kit for her, so that's not helping since I haven't yet determined a palette! She liked blue, though, so that's a definite in it.)

You are right that it's a blessing to be able to care for her at home; mom's health was being badly affected by grandma's dementia, and with my health issues and my sister's first child being 6 months old when grandma passed, there was just no way any of us could make it work. Of course, the way it was affecting her personality and how vicious her tongue was when she did recognize you for you and not as her sister or aunt or grandmother, it's probably better we didn't have all of those extremely sad and painful daily memories from the last year of her life. Luckily, it sounds like your experience was much better.

So sorry for your loss, Marti. I hope you family has some joy this holiday season and remembers her fondly for years to come

May God bless you and your family, I'm so sorry for your loss. Last Christmas and holiday season was a hard time for my family too, a really bad one, but this year will be different, i feel it and it will for you too. Lots of love smiley

Oh goodness...I'm so sorry smiley

My mom died in 2004 and we did the same...hospice at home. Cancer is just an abominable thing. smiley

Hang in there...♥

Hope you have some joy this season. God Bless! xoxox