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Sunday, Oct 3, 2021

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Penny picked up Mom at 1:15 pm and texted everyone so they knew.  She also sent a photo of just HOW MUCH STUFF mom was bringing with her for the 2 days, with the message “Jesus!”.  It was kind of funny, but also another sad example of perhaps poor (or questionable) reasoning.  Did she really need to take all that? Jim and I picked up Mickey at 2:45 pm.

Saturday, Oct 2, 2021

Jim left to go visit Mom around noon.  Mom’s been really looking forward to an overnight stay with her 2 daughters at Kathy’s place for the past week now.  The agreement was that while Greg was out camping with his brother, Mom & Penny would have a sleep over with Kathy at their place.  So Penny was to pickup Mom on Sunday and they would return on Tuesday. When Jim arrived today, he found Mom smiling from ear to ear with bags packed and saying “Penny should be here at any time to pick me up!”. Jim had to break the news to her that 'today was Saturday, not Sunday. Penny wouldn’t be picking her up until tomorrow.’ Jim said he could just see the joy & excitement drain from her face as she asked “You’re kidding me, right?”. Once Mom realized it was Saturday, she also realized she'd need her pillbox. Jim helped her look for it in her luggage. She knew she'd packed them in her luggage, but they had to completely unpack everything looking for them because she’d plac...