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We decided that Mama needed a better place to live back in early 2009 and put her on the wait list for an incredible retirement community close to our house. Since she doesn’t have a car and she walks everywhere, we wanted a place for her that was convenient. And she has a thousand things nearby for her to have easy access to the simple luxuries in life: a laundromat, a church, a library, a grocery store, some restaurants, a bank, a doctor, a pharmacy. She has a beautiful church right outside her window, and better than all of this, she has companionship. Women were constantly stopping by today to wish her well and introduce themselves. There are parties, and dinners, and card games, and knitting sessions. So much for her to do. A brighter life for my mother, at last.

She’s been jumping up and down for weeks waiting to move in to her new place. And today, thanks to my hero husband, she moved in to her sparkling new apartment. Sean moved her in alone all morning, hauling her old apartment into our tiny SUV. My father-in-law came over later in the afternoon to help with the rest of the furniture and to give my mother a beautiful couch. She and I just got home from a supply run to Wal*mart for necessities. We’re all plumb exhausted.

Here are her new diggs:









































And so that my sisters a million miles away can take a tour of the new place, here is a video:



I’m pretty sure my mother is falling asleep tonight asking herself, “Is this Heaven?”