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Becoming
the
Meems
the transformation is complete. I've become my mother.
by carolyn lackey
Becoming
Meems
the

Carolyn Lackey
Aug 11, 20201 min read
Meems' Celebration Information
Link: Helen's Celebration FF to 15:00. The link will be available for a couple of weeks. Enjoy! cel
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Carolyn Lackey
Aug 8, 20203 min read
The Sweetest Day
Yesterday was amazing. The air was cool. The fountain was gurgling. I was surrounded by three people who knew my mother the very best...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jul 31, 20204 min read
It's All in the Packaging
Yesterday, I did something new. I gift-wrapped my mother. Let me explain. Alan went by the funeral home to pick up "Meems." That was...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jul 29, 20205 min read
Enjoying a Cup of Coffee
Mom's home on Rockview Drive in Waco had a garage-turned-screened-in-porch that overlooked her lush backyard. The reason I know that the...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jul 23, 20206 min read
This Week's Journey
So this week it happened. Meems relinquished her withered and worn little body and entered into the full glory of God. On Tuesday, July...
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Carolyn Lackey
May 31, 20203 min read
365 Days
This marks the eve of the 365-day anniversary of Meems' "Transitioning" to Heaven. On March 16th, 2020 I decided to no longer kiss her...
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Carolyn Lackey
May 20, 20203 min read
Goulash
"How does goulash sound for when it's my turn to make Sunday night supper for the youth group?" Meems was like that. She planned her...
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Carolyn Lackey
Apr 14, 20202 min read
An Easter to Remember
I didn't decorate the house for Easter this year which is saying a lot because I have amassed a considerable amount of vintage Easter...
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Carolyn Lackey
Apr 3, 20204 min read
Five Good Things Revisited
[I wrote this in 2015 just after I moved Mom into memory care which is its own kind of quarantine. It reminds me to look for the good...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Mar 19, 20203 min read
What a Day of Rejoicing it Will Be
Many of you have asked how Meems is doing and whether or not I've been able to visit her. She spends each day in a state of suspended...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Feb 24, 20203 min read
How it All Began
My mother met Leonard in September of 2010. I wrote this blog post in April of 2011. It marked the beginning of a dear, dear...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Jan 11, 20202 min read
94
On Thursday, January 9, 2020, Helen Katherine Williams Kinzbach, aka The Meems, turned 94 years old. NINE-TEE-FOUR. It was a low-key...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Dec 14, 20194 min read
The Sameness of Every Day
We sat in a park watching our toddlers sliding down the small red plastic slide and scooting through the little yellow tunnel. As...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Oct 21, 20193 min read
Crown Jewels
But first...many of you have tentatively asked how Meems is doing. I say "tentatively" because it's been a while since my last update,...
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Carolyn Lackey
Sep 6, 20193 min read
Absent
That was then. This is most of the time. People often ask me how Meems is doing. I need to start pulling out my phone and showing this...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jun 30, 20192 min read
Imposter
Yesterday, I entered Mom’s cozy little room, set down the insulated fabric picnic hamper that now serves as my embroidery basket, and...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jun 20, 20193 min read
The Solitude of Stitchery
I did something rather odd this morning. I trudged upstairs to the attic, retrieved a wrinkled, ancient chambray shirt from the...
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Carolyn Lackey
Jun 14, 20195 min read
Eleven Lives
I was fifteen years old the first time that I thought that my mother was at death's door. It was the summer of 1971. Mom had just come...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Jun 4, 20193 min read
Mama Cammareri
The breath had almost totally left her body. She was as white as snow. And then she completely pulled back from death and stood up and...
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by Carolyn Lackey
Jun 1, 20194 min read
Finding the Funny
My sister, Kathy, taught me to "find the funny" in life. Back in the day, we laughed with each other and at each other until we...
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