A
Sad Day…
January 20, 2014
Today the movers came to move my mom’s stuff out of her
apartment into my house. It was only 2 weeks ago that with the assistance of my
friends we moved my stuff from the storage unit into my house. So needless to
say, it has been a busy couple of week and I cannot wait until I am done
packing.
Since buying the house, I had it painted. It took some
time and luckily, I was able to stay at my mom’s place until it was done. I am
still living out of boxes and unpacking myself and have now completed the task
of moving my mom out of her apartment.
The reason that it is a sad day is because she has
lived in this apartment for so long…not only that we have been told that she
will not be leaving the hospital. The fact that I am doing the final clean of
her apartment is something that I didn’t think we would be doing any time soon.
I was always expecting her to come back home after I decluttered her place…I
didn’t think she wouldn’t be coming home.
As I stare at the bare walls, clean carpet and little
things left behind…a lump starts to develop in my throat. I wish that she could
have come back here to see what she helped to accomplish in the purge.
I start to think of all the laughs we had here, all the
memories we made. I know it sounds odd and it is just an apartment but to me it
is more than that. This was my mom’s home and I honestly never thought she
wouldn’t be coming back here.
So for me, it is a sad day…I can’t imagine what it is
like for her. I will go and see her after I finish the last few things. The
Manager gave her back her full deposit so she will be happy to hear that. In
the end though, no one wants to know that you are never going home again.
