Over the last two days, I have made a marathon trip to California to fetch our Mom to her new accommodations here in beautiful Wickenburg, AZ. Overall, the traffic was not too terrible, but the usual watch your @$$ factor for the California Crazies on the road did apply. There were a couple of instances where I got cut off by inadvisable lane changes where the other driver’s rear bumper was a mere four feet in front of my front bumper.
Luckily, the trip was without incident and Mom is safely spending the night here in beautiful Casa Casandro. As I write this, she is all settled in on the sofa in the great room with the TV and some of her favorite word puzzles. (Note to self – get more word puzzle books.)
Tomorrow, we will enroll her in the assisted living program at our local retirement ranch. She is sad about leaving her cats and daughter in California, but looks forward to meeting new friends and getting quality 24/7 care. She really likes our house, so we can look forward to having her over for visits and food from time to time.
Glad to hear the “In-N-Out” trip to Kaliforniastan went well.
When my Dad sold the house and moved into a retirement community, it was the happiest I’d seen him in a long time.
We took Mom to check her in today and I swear it was like dropping off a kid on the first day of school. The good thing is that when we checked on her later, she was all perked up and talking about new friends she made.
It’ll be cool.