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Wishing You A Merry Christmas Week
(((HUGS)))
Posted on 12/21/2014 5:00:58 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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Oh My!!!You work at a very popular store.
Love your owls.
I hope you get a chance to sit a bit this week - looks like working where you do can be a real pain in the legs and back!
That long and longer. It is tiring but everyone seems to be in a good mood for the most part.
Kathy,
Sorry to post so late to this thread, but post I must. My MIL has lived with us for the past three years. She turned 100 years old last May. She was born in Berlin. Her father was a German Mennonite farmer whose family, generations before, had been invited by Catherine the Great to Russia to teach farming to the rural folks. After a required 2 year stint in the Russian Forestry Service, he had gone to Berlin to get a degree in Divinity so he could teach in the local college when he went back to Russia. But, things got crazy in 1914.
While in Russia, near the Black Sea, he had met his wife, an English woman whose father was a factory owner in Sheffield. She was a widow with 4 children having previously married another Mennonite farmer who died suddenly from a virus. Man did they click. They married and whole family (which had already increased by one) went to Berlin while the
father studied. There, my MIL was born in May near a street lined with Linden trees. One night in August, her mother said to the family that they must get up from dinner and all go to England immediately. They got up from the table, grabbed a few clothes, and walked out of the house with dirty dishes still on the table. She knew war was going to break out and they could not return to their home in Russia, nor stay and get stranded in E. Berlin. They headed for the harbor and the family of 8 hopped one of the last ships out of Germany before the war broke out the next day.
They arrived in England and stayed a couple of months with her family in Sheffield, but could not stay there because of her father being German. So, they found a distant relative in the United States to sponsor them and once again the family, mother pregnant again with her 7th child, went to Canada, down the St. Lawrence and finally settled in Nebraska, then Kansas, Indiana, Detroit, Texas, and finally Missouri. All together the family wound up as 2 brothers and 2 sisters (from first husband) and 6 more sisters with husband number two.
My MIL has spent 3 years telling me the stories and it’s been so amazing. She had a stroke about a month ago and is now hospicing in our house. (Anyone with good advice about hospice, please feel free to let me know.) I’ve been pulling night detail as I can sleep better in a chair than a bed because of my back and so everyone gets a decent night sleep. It’s about time for me to hit the hay so I can get to my post by 11:00 pm.
I hope you enjoy the little story from a long absent poster.
BSW
I don’t know if you know it or not, but you are blessed.
You better believe I know it! It has been such a reward having this lady stay with us. I’ll be forever grateful to my husband for bringing her here.
I actually did get a chance to sit and do some stuff in the back for a while today, so I’m glad you wished it! :)
2 more days. The line was ever bit as long when I left this afternoon. We’re also running out of stuff. We’ll have angry peeps by the time it’s over. Not that they couldn’t have come in 2 or 3 weeks ago or anything! Right?
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