I'm standing by with Mom while Dave and Dad are at the VA Hospital. It is time for Dad's yearly check up, shots, knee, blood test. and all.

Sitting with Mom just now, she told me that "all she ever wanted was a family to dote over. To dote over each one."

This came at the tail end of she and I talking about "things" as they were, as they are, and how things will be in the future.

She gives us all GREAT reviews.

I am smiling ear to ear.