Spring Chickens
Sometimes life sucks, let's face it. If you're blessed, you get to a certain age where your parents are close to that horizon that takes them from this life to the next. I say blessed, because some of us have to face life without our parents at a time when it wasn't expected, because of illness, or accident or other reasons. When you hit my age, in my case, my parents are 20-ish years older than I am. A few years back I would have said that's a lot of years between me and them, now I look at it as, "Geez! You have an old lady as a daughter! You good with that?" Gotta laugh at that one. On that vein, being an "old lady" as Mouse has called me at least once in the last month, and dealing with what is referred to as "aging parents" is hard. On the one hand, I'm beyond blessed that I still have both parents with me, on the other hand, seeing one of them ill and declining is hard. To be honest, I never thought I would see my Dad struggle w