A Time For ...

It is unbelievable that summer is over and I am back in school!   I spent most of my summer working at cleaning out my Mother-In Law's house.  

In the  past four weeks we said goodbye to an aunt and two uncles.

 Aunt Helen, 91 years, was an amazingly talented woman.  She painted a chair with Rosemaling and gave it to Travis when he was a year old.  He had used the chair when it was bare wood at a picnic. She said he was the only Norwegian relative. It has been in my living room for 36 years.

 Two weeks later we said Goodbye,  to my mother's younger brother, Uncle Allard, 86 years old.  He fought a long battle with cancer.

 Today we received the call that her last brother,Uncle Leonard, 93 years old,  died this morning.  She is the sole survivor of her family which consisted of five brothers and my mom.  In one year she has said goodbye to 3 brothers and 2 sisters- in - law.

Kasey spent a day the last week of August with no brothers.  She had wanted to sew a quilt.  One day she selected her fabric from my stash, then designed the layout.

A  couple of days later she started to sew.

The students started back to school last Tuesday.  School this year is another LONG story!  That I will tell about next time.