Happy Memories and Stages of Time
In June 2009 we celebrated my mom's 70th birthday. Sunny had made arrangements to invite friends and family members to a "surprise" birthday party for my mom. I don't recall how many came, but there was a lot. Many from the ward, a few from work, and family members - Bill and Kayla had taken several pictures. I would guess there were 50 - 70 people in all. Corey gave a tribute and several sat in folded chairs that Sunny must have borrowed from the Church. Mom was definitely surprised and she looked so happy. She had already been diagnosed with dementia, but it was just the early stages. She was well aware of what was going on. And she knew everybody there. Last November - before we put mom into assisted living - she was overwhelmed by the tremendous amount of people at our Thanksgiving dinner - all 18 of us. So I thought she'd really freak when we took her to the ward Christmas dinner one month later because there were ove...