Well shoot, now you gotta come up with something else to do when JR wants you to watch a baseball game with him.

Nah. My Mom was catching me up on my Grandmothers big move.

Kind of some cool news too, my uncle (her son) that lives downstairs thinks my Grandfather visited my grandma on Tuesday.

She has been really against this move. With the alzheimers she has kept forgetting it was happened, every time it's brought up she acts surprised and then upset that she has to move at all. My aunt, the one thats taking her in first has felt horrible because my grandmother has made it clear she doesn't want to go there.

Well, on Tuesday (which was the day before the 8 year anniversary of my grandfathers death) her son woke up to hear his dog barking like crazy upstairs. His dog is not a barker, she's a big lovable dog that really is well behaved.

He was worried something happened to my grandmother so he ran upstairs in a hurry to check on her and found the dog barking at the bedroom while backing away. The dog wouldn't stop for several minutes. My grandmother was sound asleep in the bedroom with the door open.

After the dog finally stopped barking and went and laid down my grandmother woke up. Everyone in the family said she's like a different person since then. She told my aunt she's excited to come stay with them. She called my Mom and told her she's looking forward to winter when she stays with her. She's like a different person.

This after almost a year of her fighting it and crying and the whole 9 yards. My uncle is convinced my grandfather visited her and somehow told her it was the right move to make.

I don't know if that's the case or not, but I can't tell you how big of a turnaround this is for her, and it literally happened over night. Besides being ok with the move she's actually REMEMBERING the move!

WebGuy wrote:

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Husker football starts in two weeks!

Ahhhhhhhhh . . . . football . . . the action sport.

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Woo hoo!  That means only four weeks until their mathematically eliminated from the bowl games! 

About a month after he passed my grandmother was getting ready for church in front of her dresser mirror and she swears she felt him come up behind her and put his arm around her waist.

That's the only time she thought she felt him.

I'm not sure if he was there Tuesday or not, BUT it would kind of make sense. They raised 9 children in that house and spent their entire 50+ years of married life in it. This has all been so emotional for the family, and the sudden change on her part is just amazing.

ghostdancer wrote:

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I'm a Husker fan!!!  I'm not a loyal one as I don't always watch their games, but Nebraska is my team!!! 

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Yay! Ghost Rocks!

JR . . . not so much.

 

 

WebGuy wrote:

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Yay! Ghost Rocks!

JR . . . not so much.

 

 

 

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I'll have to start watching more of their games now, then we can talk Husker football!!! 

 

ghostdancer wrote:

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I'll have to start watching more of their games now, then we can talk Husker football!!! 

 

 

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Yay! My football buddy!

We have a new coach this year so we'll see what happens.

 

Rock out Web!  Oh, my daughter found some easy bass songs to play on the web the other day....she's teaching herself right now....she's been playing London Bridge.  She says it's a start.

You used photoshop to enhance your picture.  We all know you really look like this:

Jeremy Riggs wrote:

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That's VERY cool Sandy. I totally believe that stuff happens all the time.

I think I told you guys this before, but my grandfather and his brother were really close. They were always laughing and joking. Our trips to the cabin up north were a riot because those two basically put on a comedy show.

When my grandpa died 8 years ago his brother Mel was in a nursing home on oxygen, in REALLY bad shape, but he insisted on going to the funeral.

It was so hard to watch him. Ever step was a struggle. He'd take a slow step or two, stop, sob uncontrollably, catch his breath and repeat. It felt like it took him an hour to get from the front door to the casket, but it was probably 15 or 20 minutes (it WAS a really long time).

A few years later he was in the nursing home, very ill. His daughter was in the hallway talking to a nurse when to their shock mel came walking out of the room past them. The daughter told him he had to get back to bed but he kept pointing down the hall and saying "Frankie (that's my grandpa, his brother) wants to have a cigarette with me".

They got him back in bed and he died that night.

I believe he saw his brother, calling him to the other side.

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 They say that happens all the time.  My granny saw my grampa just before she died.  I went to visit her and she told me grampa was down in the cafeteria having a sandwich.  She asked me to do down and get him, there was something she wanted to ask him.  Later that night, she died. 

Did you notice how quick Web ran away when I showed him my guns?

Chicken.

Nah, just practicing. I need all the practice I can get.

Thats cool that your daughter is having fun with it too!

I'm sure real lessons would be better than the way I learned.

Where's your sense of adventure???