[Magdalen] Mom's 80th birthday

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

She will wake up alone even if you are there.  I mean, you're not going to
sleep in her room.

In any case, get a hotel room, and then you have the leeway to go there if
and when you need to.

You might just tell her that you love her and would do anything for her,
but you also need  place where you can go to be by yourself at times, and
she might like that too. She may not like it, but she will probably
understand it. And if she truly cannot understand that, then you for sure
need to have that hotel room.  Emphasize the the money is not important.

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks, Mike. Yes, I'd want us to spend max time with Mom and not use
> the hotel as a way to minimize it. I'm thinking stay up with Mom
> catching up on Friday, meet her for breakfast (on us) Saturday
> morning, and then we have the dinner event at 3. Hang out, then church
> in the morning at Mom's church and homeward we go after that.
>
> Just don't want to feel like we're spurning Mom's hospitality or
> leaving her alone. If we're with her all day and evening, we won't be.
> (But she'll wake up alone on her 80th birthday, says The Voice in my
> mind...)
>
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 11:50 AM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> > I vote for the hotel, but stay as late as need be (till your mom goes to
> bed?) each day so as to fill it up for her with yourselves as much as
> possible.
> >
> > When Anna and I visited Mom this past June, if it weren't for the Sparks
> Nugget we'dve lost our minds.
>
>
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>