Life at home with parents.

After dinners, sometimes lunches.  Mother and I would sit out at porch on rocking chairs.  Getting fresh air, relaxing, catching up.  One day, this topic came up.  We have two houses in the neighborhood, occupied by middle age single woman.  Their children are grown, husbands one gone, one passed.  For one of the women, my mother exclaimed "what an anti-climax!"  After visiting son and grandson, she had to come back to this big empty house...  Sigh, I said.  Mother went on saying being able to live with children is a blessing, vice versa.  I thought to myself, yes.  Then I stopped thinking.  Instead I started pitying that lady.  When she got married, she definitely didn't know she would lose her husband to nasty cancer.  She definitely wasn't prepared for living alone at the age of 50 plus 60 years old...

           Few days later, I started thinking about life living with parents.  How has it been?  I remember mother once said, it was a blessing for her being able to take care of grandfather during his finals years...  With that being said, am I super duper blessed living with them now?  Yes.  Some people would look at it as oh how useless still living at your parents.  Yea to a certain point it could be true.  But I bet not many people can live with their parents...  There bound to be frictions, but that's normal!  =)  Coz we can always work through frictions.  There are only certain guidance could be given by our parents.  There are only certain comfort could be given by our parents.  So back to my question.  How has it been?  I can say it's been great! Not so much so how I feel really.  It is more about how they feel having me at home.  I know they are happy because of my presence, I know they are happy because my baby sister is less lonely.   I know they worry less because I am home.  Instead of me out in snow storm trying to get to work, as an example.  =)  If I can make them less worrisome, then I am satisfied.  Worrying makes ppl age must faster.  Like I said before there bound to be complications, but we are family, we will work it out!      

             You guys, the feeling of taking care of someone else's parents does not feel good at all.  Makes you think what about my own parents?  Right?  So if you're physically capable, go home more often.  If you're not, call them more often.  I promise you, they will appreciate the little gesture.    

              I know I have more to say.  But right now, my brain tells me to go to bed.  So good night!