Holding On To and Sharing Memories
Submitted by My Garden Spot Blog
I don’t know about you, but recently more and more of my…peers… have lost parents or partners or both. It makes you think. When my dad died, the household he and my mom shared stayed intact, with my mom holding onto everything. When ‘Pup’s mom died, his father sold almost everything and moved into a smallish senior apartment.
The only thing that was…discussed with some fervor, was the family pictures. Who got which ones and why and who got to choose or make the decision.
I think I’m going to get this for both my mom and my Pa-in-law. We need to scan the pictures into a digital format while we have our surviving parents to identify them (if they can), and thus, share the whole bunch of photos with everyone. No fighting, no fuss.
I even found one on sale on buy.com. I think it’s worth the money for peace in the family. ‘Cause, Lord knows, I have a feeling that logic won’t be in my sibling’s vocabulary. Reason and reasonableness will probably take a vacation as well. It ain’t gonna be pretty, folks.
Even with my mom having already discussed what she wants and who is going to be executor, and all that, I’ve at least two other siblings that are going to go out of their way to cause drama. Oh well, two out of five isn’t too bad, I guess.
Still, I’m going to push for the pictures to be scanned, sooner, rather than later.
