A Fragile Thread

So today, we found again how fragile is this thing called life. We hit Meijers at 6, Target at 7, McDonalds at 8:30, the DollarTree at 9:30, the mall at 10:00. We got back to my mother's around 12:30. She had had a phone call from my sister, the one who had not been with us yesterday because she was with "the other side".

They had had a lovely Thanksgiving. Her mother-in-law had commented several times on what a wonderful Thanksgiving it had been. (Her mother-in-law's only grandson is Baby Bull...the apple of her eye.)

This morning her mother-in-law didn't wake up. She had passed in her sleep.

So as we left to go our separate ways this evening, the hugs were a little tighter, the words a little more heartfelt. That won't last of course...we all are human and soon will return to our pellmell pathways. But for today, we were a little more aware.