Sunday, my siblings are coming to my home for a family meeting, and to sort through Mother’s things that we have been storing since her death.
Mother lived with us for close to 20 years. When she passed away, she was living in an assisted living facility, and we took care of most of what had filled her rooms there within three weeks of her death.
I have coasted through a lot of the past year, knowing that I needed to attend to these things. I’ve been working on the steps necessary to close her trust, and my goal is to get this done by the end of the summer. I knew that I needed to go through everything in the basement to determine what should be passed on to my siblings, or to charity, but I dragged my feet about it.
I was making quilts for charity with the Scraps on a Mission ladies, and mentioned that I needed some healthy teenaged kids to carry things upstairs for me. Poof! Ask and ye shall receive! One of them talked to the youth pastor and he emailed me that very day!
So, this Sunday at noon, the kids will come to be our “slave labor.” They will help us, and we will make a contribution to their Mission Fund. Seems like a perfect swap to me.
I intend to spend time during the rest of the week marking what needs to be brought up, to make things go smoother. I can get some stuff boxed up, and move junk out of the way. The kids are even going to bring up binders and boxes of company information that need to go to the shredder.
Then, at 5:00, my sibs will be here to look through things, and anything we no longer wish to keep will go to one of the charities.
All these years, I’ve been talking about the dreaded basement, and I am finally going to get a start on it!
Thanks, Mom!!!!