Mom's Story - Installment #19

Here is is, the end of August already. Today Bill is 70 years young. I asked him how it felt to be 70 and his answer was, "Not much different than last night when I was 69." Duh! I guess that was a dumb question to start with.

It's time for another part of Mom's story so here it is. We're nearing the end, so I hope you've enjoyed it.

This is October 8^th, 2005. Fall is here but it still feels like summer. I went to the dentist and had my black stomach tooth pulled Friday morning. The dentist said it needed to be pulled before putting in the new partial upper plate. That night we went to a singing at a little Indian church, and then Saturday we went to Idabel to the Free Will Baptist Church where Eden Gospel Bluegrass was playing. We ate afterwards and got home about 10:00 PM. My face was swelled and had a big red spot on it where the tooth was pulled. I got some pain pills that helped and by the next Friday, it was fine.

I’m looking forward to Thanksgiving as Donna and Wil, and Greg and family and Connie are all coming. Connie flew into Ft. Smith and Donna and Wil timed their arrival to pick her up, so they all arrived on Nov. 19^th. It was a really nice day. Greg and Dawn and the girls didn’t get here until the following Monday.

On Tuesday evening the kids gave me a surprise birthday party. Donna got my birthday ring fixed and gave it to me. Dawn and Greg gave me a housecoat, Connie – 4 CD set called “Tuesdays with Morrie”. Joan gave me three star shaped candles to put in my room, and then Donna gave me a box with all the love letters in from Les. After we got done, Bill hooked up the slide projector and we watched a lot of our old slides. It was really fun to see the grandchildren when they were little. Molly and Maddie really got a kick out of that.

Wednesday Bert and Kim came up from Conroe, TX to spend Thanksgiving with us. We had a good Thanksgiving dinner, and then Friday morning after breakfast Greg and family and Donna & Wil left for home. Bert and Kim stayed for lunch and then they left for Texas.

That's it for this time.

JB