At long last
I think the sun was just as happy as my heart this morning, it's rise like a celebration. Today is the day that Bev comes home to me. My family and I have spent countless hours, tears, and endured frustration and failures, but she finally has a place to come to back in Illinois, and today she journeys home. She's been away for far too long. August 31, 2017 will mark 10 years since that fateful day. Anyone who has frequented this blog in the past and still visits every now and then will appreciate the significance of this news, and to you, I thank you for continuing to hold my mom in your heart. I know it's been years since I've given you an update, and for that I am sorry. Life has kept me busy, and honestly I haven't had the courage to post about my repeated failed attempts to relocate her back here-- I have struggled with feelings of immense guilt and shame over this, having allowed my own life, and also my deficient coping mechanisms, to impede those eff