A couple of times a year my sister-in-law makes the journey from Edmonton and stays with us for several days. She takes her holiday time from work to visit her 92 year old mother who resides in a nursing home. Usually she brings a daughter but this time she brought her son and his friend. They also were using holiday time to visit at the nursing home. No one could ask for nicer house guests. The fellows took over making the morning coffee and by the time they left I was feeling like I was the guest ! They even bought me a new coffee pot. I imagine that had something to do with the convoluted process I had of twisting the coffee pot cord around the cupboard door handle to make it work. Apart from being just nice people I gave them each "Nicer Place" cards for the fact that they would willingly take their holiday time just to visit a very elderly lady in a nursing home. I also appreciated the fact that they were trying to strengthen family contact. It is so easy, with the busy lives we all lead, for cousins, nieces, nephews, grandchildren to drift apart when they all live in different parts of the world. They brought us all a bit closer again.
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