The little things

Tonight we decided it was a good night for grandma's "yummy chicken recipie" 

When we got married grandma made me a cook book with different recipes from all sorts of people from Brent's side if the family, however there was one recipie from her in the front. It says to drive to KFC, order chicken, drive home, eat. We all had a good laugh when she gave it to me. Since the only person at our house that still has a gull bladder does not eat orally, we don't use grandmas fried chicken recipe often, but when we did I would call her and we would laugh. We decided earlier in the week that we needed to have her fried chicken tonight so Brent picked up a bucket on his way home. 

Right now we are at the point where all the little things remind her of us. Grandma loved to shop so we have different things around the house the she has given us over the years. Tuesday I went to get dressed and a pair of fuzzy socks rolled onto my toes. Grandma got me fuzzy socks each Christmas because she did not want me to be cold. She always got Brent slippers. 

Jilli and I spent last night at my parents as Brent, my dad and Seth spent the night at Dan's house. When we got home today I set jilli down in the living room. I got all the stuff out of the car and came back into the living room and Jillian was reading a card grandma sent her. Grandma frequently sent jilli cards and post cards and jilli loved getting them in the mail. 

My coach purse was hers and my coach wallet she gave me as a gift a few years ago. 

While Brent and I have teared up when we thought of grandma and each of these things, they reminded us of her and the things she loved. They remind us of her love for us. She was one of those people who I knew loved me no matter what. She choose to love me. She loved Brent so much and in my last conversation with her she was talking about how  incredibly much she loved Jillian. I was blessed today that one of Brent's second cousins was able to send me the pictures off of grandmas phone today. Jillian curled up on my lap to look at the pictures with me. Out of the over 900 pictures, the majority of those pictures where of Jillian. Jilli was so surprised there was so many pictures of her and we talked about how grandma jill loved her so much. 

I was also able to order jilli a dress from Janie and jack tonight for the service after driving to Milwaukee yesterday and the store not being in the mall anymore. Thankfully they have their end of season sale going on right now so I got it at a price grandma would have been proud of. 

So that's life here right now. Tomorrow my goal is to figure out what is going on with neuro and when we can get Jillian an appointment.