Mama's Home With Photos!

I'm home again after another trip to MA. I had posted on facebook that I was making a sad trip to be with my family while my aunt was dying.

I've written about it before. She is 10 years younger than my Mom and 12 years older than I am, so it was always like I had a big sister/aunt. She spent the last 2 years suffering from the effects of many years of diabetes and complications. I got a phone call on a Friday morning and arrived in MA that night, as she was going into a coma. When I gave her a kiss and told her I was there, she gave me a definate sign that she heard me. We spent the next 36 hours talking to her and holding her hand. I couldn't let go until her fingers turned blue and the funeral director came into the room.

 

May 1968

I spent some time with this guy...

I came home with this in my carry-on. You can only get it in that neck of the woods.

I ate way too much of this...

Fried fish, fried shrimp, fried potatoes, fried clam cakes(fritters), Clam chowder, stuffed clams.
I nearly fried myself into a gall bladder attack.

I came home to find that Mr Sunshine and Sorority Girl had replaced the 52-inch portal to sports and movies with this new toy...

...and Little Miss Lily had loved her puppy to death...

Anybody want to hear the story about the Private Bad-ass Funeral I threw for my aunt?