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<blockquote data-quote="trinityroyal" data-source="post: 391640" data-attributes="member: 3907"><p>SRL, I really like the bumble-beeing description. It fits perfectly!</p><p></p><p>Getting through the Christmas season this year is going to be hard. My beloved mother in law is dying. She's been fighting cancer for the last 6 or 7 years, and she just doesn't have the strength to fight any more. She's disappearing before our eyes. And it seems that the knowledge that mother in law doesn't have much time is affecting the family differently. My sister in law has turned from her normally sweet and loving self into an out-and-out raving, maniacal...um...mean person (substituted for expletive). My brother in law has sunk into a depression deeper than any I've seen before, and husband is trying to be manful about it, but sometimes he just sits down and cries like a baby. mother in law has been more like a mother to me than my own difficult child-mom ever was, and I'm just heartbroken at the thought of her loss. What'll I ever do without her?</p><p></p><p>Still, I want to make this a wonderful Christmas. For all of us, for the children and for mother in law. I'm looking forward to hauling out the ornaments and putting up the tree, decorating the house, and starting the Christmas baking.</p><p>I have been knitting frantically, trying to finish all of my projects on time:</p><p>- Little easy child's annual birthday sweater (He's my best Christmas present ever -- born just a few days before Christmas)</p><p>- A jaunty hat for mother in law (she lost her hair to the cancer a few years ago, and has the most fab collection of hats)</p><p>- A little sweater for Tyrantina to match her Christmas dress</p><p>- Mittens or scarves for everyone else</p><p></p><p>Grieving will come later. Right now I want to enjoy the time we have left.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trinityroyal, post: 391640, member: 3907"] SRL, I really like the bumble-beeing description. It fits perfectly! Getting through the Christmas season this year is going to be hard. My beloved mother in law is dying. She's been fighting cancer for the last 6 or 7 years, and she just doesn't have the strength to fight any more. She's disappearing before our eyes. And it seems that the knowledge that mother in law doesn't have much time is affecting the family differently. My sister in law has turned from her normally sweet and loving self into an out-and-out raving, maniacal...um...mean person (substituted for expletive). My brother in law has sunk into a depression deeper than any I've seen before, and husband is trying to be manful about it, but sometimes he just sits down and cries like a baby. mother in law has been more like a mother to me than my own difficult child-mom ever was, and I'm just heartbroken at the thought of her loss. What'll I ever do without her? Still, I want to make this a wonderful Christmas. For all of us, for the children and for mother in law. I'm looking forward to hauling out the ornaments and putting up the tree, decorating the house, and starting the Christmas baking. I have been knitting frantically, trying to finish all of my projects on time: - Little easy child's annual birthday sweater (He's my best Christmas present ever -- born just a few days before Christmas) - A jaunty hat for mother in law (she lost her hair to the cancer a few years ago, and has the most fab collection of hats) - A little sweater for Tyrantina to match her Christmas dress - Mittens or scarves for everyone else Grieving will come later. Right now I want to enjoy the time we have left. [/QUOTE]
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