Give your parent an extra hug

While on vacation, our host at the cottages in Canada, lost her father. She stopped at my cottage when I called out the door to invite her to dinner. She was crying and I asked her what was wrong. She had just come from the nursing home and the doctors told DiAnne that her father would probably not last more than a few days. He died that evening. When I arrived home from vacation, I got word from my daughter that her mother-in-law's mother had passed away the evening before. Having lost both my father and my mother, I could immediately relate to how DiAnne and my daughter's mother-in-law felt. Losing a parent is one of the hardest times in a child's life. It does not matter how old that child is. For those of you who read this and have a parent or parents living, give them an extra little hug next time you see them. You have no idea how very lucky you are.