Week two....

Week two in North Carolina. Everyone, including Mom is tired of eating out. Monday we returned about half the clothes she bought the week before. Once again, we went to JC Penney's, Elite Fashions and the outlet mall over at Smithfield.

Tuesday, Mom was tired so we just did the lunch thing, then hung around for a while. We went out and bought a pizza from my Mom's favorite place, took it out to her for dinner and then went back to her house. The maintenance guy from the assisted living facility came by with the available colors of paint for Mom to choose for her new room.

Wednesday was a day of running around getting flowers sent to Barbara's family and taking some food over to the family. Since my Mom is unable to cook, she asked me to go get some BBQ and accessories to take over.

Thursday, my brother George and I prepared to move Mom to a new room on Friday. We had to spend a couple hours on the phone with the cable TV company and the phone company to arrange to have the cable and the phone transferred down the hall to her new room. We also hustled up some boxes and the carts that were available from the facility to use in the move the next day.

Friday was moving day. Didn't know if the painters were going to finish or not because they didn't even show up until 3:30pm on Thursday, but they knocked it out in about 1.5 hours. Started about 10:00am with my nephew Ryan and myself. George showed up a little later. It went pretty rapidly and we finished all the big stuff around 2:00pm. In the meantime, Mom had gotten hungry, so she went to the dining room for lunch. The rest of us took off at 2:00pm to lunch. We got back about 3:00pm and put up bulletin boards, put linens away and generally polished up things until 4:30pm. I went back to Mom's house to shower and change, then went out to get a Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger and a small vanilla Frostie (her favorites) for Mom's dinner. I then ran back to the house to change again for Barbara's funeral.

George and I went to Barbara's funeral to represent the family at 7:00pm Friday night. There was no visitation before the funeral, only after. We hung around and spoke to Barbara's daughter and her husband and then headed home about 9:00pm.