Thursday, July 17th, Mom Craft will be having cataract surgery.  It is a small procedure and doesn’t hurt.  The only concern I have is her age.  You see Mom is 95 years young.
For most of us, it would be a piece of cake having cataract surgery.  Both of my lenses have been replaced and my […]

Yesterday, Tuesday April 1, 2008, I received a call from my sister in law. “Tobey, your mother is in the hospital in the ER. She can’t walk for her legs are giving out on her. We’ve been here about one hour and she wants you to know about it.” Boy, did my heart sink.
I asked […]

 Mom has been a Christian for so many years I lose count and she talks with God daily. She has been our family prayer warrior for she prays daily for her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren. Oh yes, Mom is 94 years young.
Mom became ill with pneumonia on Dec. 19, 2007. While in […]

Planning a funeral is never easy, especially when someone you love dies.  Planning a funeral while the individual is still alive is another thing.   My suggestion would be to plan their funeral while they are still alive so they can answer some of your questions, help decide what they would like to have, etc.
Let me […]

I apologize for not writing more about Mom in the last few days.  It has been a roller coaster of emotions, dreams, goals, watching and waiting to see if Mom will get better or worse.
For three days Mom showed signs of getting better.  By that I mean she was dressed, sitting up in a wheelchair, […]

 On Thursday, January 24, 2008 we (Larry and Tobey) were spending the afternoon and early evening with Mom at Heartland.  She was in such good spirits, laughed a little, complained a little, wouldn’t tell us when she was hurting even though we could tell that her shoulder was causing her great pain (still heart related), […]

The love of a mother helps us to grow.   A love of a mother for her child is fantastic.  I am a mother of 4 children, a mother in law to 4 children and a grandmother of 8.   When we were first married, I thought I couldn’t love someone as much as I loved my […]

I want to apologize to all of you for not getting back for the past 5 weeks.  My mother in law, Flavilla Craft, has become extremely ill.  She became ill a week or so before Christmas with pneumonia; got MRSA at the hospital; didn’t like the hospital food and refused to eat. After she got […]