If you do the 1-second-a-day videos, I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I have, Kirstin! Once I figured out the app, it’s so easy to use. The hardest part is remembering to take a video every day. lol. But after awhile, that gets easier too.

Lisa, I stay current on all my health stuff as well.

Congrats on having your colonoscopy done, Cindy! 🙂 And that you won’t have to do it again for several years! You can check that off your health to-do list. I try to stay current on these tests even though they are annoying because yes, it’s better to catch things early if we do end up with something.

The death penalty definitely is a topic that we need to talk about more openly. I used to be so certain that it was a good thing, but as I’ve gotten older, I’ve learned to question my positions on a lot of things, and often end up changing my position altogether.

I’m glad your husband got his colonoscopy done, even if it was because you scheduled his physical. lol. My husband is up to date on his, but I keep gently prodding my brother to go get one done because he is way past due and we have a family history of colon cancer. It’s a yucky process, but there are worse things. 😉

I appreciate your care, Paula. I’m thankful my uncle made it to 86 years old; he had a good, long life, yet even at that age we weren’t quite ready to let him go.

I’m sorry to hear that you lost an uncle this past week, too, Debbie! Uncle Bobby was my last uncle; I have two aunts left. I told one of them at Bobby’s funeral that we’re not going to allow her to die (as if we ever have control over that).

Thank you, Natalie. I will be forever grateful for those good memories we made with my uncle at our last family meal together. He was so happy that day!

I appreciate your condolences, sweet friend. It’s been harder losing my uncle than I even expected it to be. It’s only been this year that I got to spend one-on-one time with him as I took him to doctor appointments, etc., instead of several of us spending time with him as a family (which was also good). He was a very good and gentle man. And yes, I am grateful too for my cousins and siblings who share their memories about him (such as, he and my youngest sister went golfing together once in her youth! I never knew that, ha).

Thanks, Joanne. The timing of our get-together with my uncle ended up being better than we even knew at the time. When it came time to choose clothes for his burial, we chose the ones that he wore that day of the family meal. I think he would agree that it was a beautiful memory for him to go out on.