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Concerned about a sweet neighbor

by The Diva

My neighbor across the street is a widow. She’s an older lady who lives alone and she’s been having a hard time lately. Luckily for her she has two great sons that look in on her frequently and come over to do yard work and get her groceries etc.

For a lady of her age she normally pretty spry. I mean, I see her out walking around every day and even driving her car once or twice a day. I think for a lady in her mid to late 80’s that’s pretty darn good! And no – she doesn’t appear to be a scary driver.

The reason I said she’s been having a hard time was because she just had surgery on one of her eyes and it didn’t go all that well to begin with so for a week or so she had blurry vision and couldn’t drive or even walk around very easily outside. I felt bad for her. I was offering to do extra things for her if she wanted. She did call me a few times to help her out.

One of the times I went over to help her with something we end up sitting down and talking over a cup of coffee and I noticed her mothers ring. She has a stone in it for each of her kids and each of her grandchildren. When I was a jeweler I used to make rings like that quite often. We called them Family Rings though.

My neighbor seems to be doing well now. She got the stitches out of her eye a few days ago and that made a huge improvement. That sounds funny to say “stitches out of her eye” doesn’t it?

Filed Under: Health and Fitness, Home and family, Items to Try, Womens World Tagged With: blurry, coffee, driving, elderly, eye surgery, eyes, garden, groceries, help, helping, mothers ring, nice, older, sons, stitches, sweet neighbor, talking, walking

Quick visit – busy weekend

by The Diva

My in-laws called last night and now they are here in Toronto for a quick weekend visit.

My father in law used to be more spontaneous than he is now, but I think this weekend he truly was spontaneous. He heard from a woman that he knows that a church here in Toronto was holding a special ceremony in honor of the Irish famine (as in the famine that brought my grandfather here and so on) and he decided that he had to attend so he and my mother in law are in the city for the weekend.

Unfortunately their visit didn’t quite mesh with my husbands work schedule. He’s just starting to do a bit of work on the weekends and he had to work this evening so he spent a bit of time with them this afternoon visiting his uncle in a nursing home but then he had to go to work. They were too tired to do much this evening after their long day. My mother in law doesn’t like to drive after dark … otherwise she’d be out looking for Wholesaleinsurance.net or something! Tomorrow is going to be a busy day so I guess we’ll all just get together tomorrow maybe for breakfast, then to see my husbands uncle again and then off to the church for the special ceremony and reception.

At some point we have to get groceries tomorrow too … hmm maybe in the evening when Chris’ parents drive back home? Maybe.

Filed Under: Home and family, Items to Try Tagged With: church, drive, driving, father in law, home, inlaws, irish famine, mother in law, nursing home, Parents, tired, uncle, visit, work

Why is the price of everything going up and up?

by The Diva

It seems like the cost of everything is going up, doesn’t it?

Groceries is more expensive, especially fresh produce! Then there’s the cost of electricity and home heating … both of those bills went up for us this year too. Just how high do they think they can hike the rates anyway?

Now we just found out that our car insurance is going up … even though both my husband and I have absolutely perfect driving records. No tickets, no infractions – nothing and we’ve both been driving for over 20 years … so wouldn’t you think our rates would go down, not up?

So now I’m trying to find car insurance cheap if that’s at all possible. Perhaps we’ll try calling our insurance company first and ask them why our rates are going up so much. It’s just unbelievable.

Are you as frustrated as we are with the price of just about everything going up so much?

Filed Under: Finance, Home and family, Items to Try, Managing the bills Tagged With: bills, cost, driving, electricity, groceries, heating, inflation, insurance, price ike, prices, produce, rate, safe driver

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