Such a poignant and special time for you both, Nature.
We never do know how the stories we live with those we love are going to unfold.
That was such a hard decision to make.
I'm so sorry this is happening.
You are amazing me.
It will feel so good to her to have everything clean and pretty and smelling nice, Nature.
Do you think the scent of paint might make her nauseous?
If you can find a can of the paint she initially used, you can just paint over the fingerprints. I used to do that all the time, when the kids were little.
Thank you for sharing this part of your story with us. In the hurt of the moment, it is the easier thing to enable and just cope. It is hard to say no and feel like decent people. (It is for me.)
I feel stronger or at least, validated, in my own decisions for having read about your brother and your mom.
I am forever questioning the choices we made, once we understood about enabling. You are right, though. Even the seemingly kinder choice often has terrible consequences.
Yes.
I will pray for him, too.
He must have been a valuable employee, for them to have kept him for all those years. I can understand why he would prefer to keep his disability from his employer.
I am proud of him for that ~ for requiring himself to perform well in spite of whatever issue he must cope with.
Probably, he got his strength and integrity from his mother.
Cedar
