I'm still alive and kicking

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Hi all. I've been lazy about checking in from time to time. Partially because I know I won't be here much to leave responses on everyone's posts. Even though I know many of you don't mind it seems wrong to me not to. We moved my sister M from her apartment in Detroit to our hometown this past Thursday. My brother owns a 28ft covered trailer and drove that to Detroit. We enlisted the help of someone that worked our business in the past and who happens to be the son of my sister, T's significant other. Holy cow, he's a workhorse. I think that's the correct term. He also helped out on Fri. So, on Thursday we got to her place at 9:30 and began getting a lot into totes. We would have done a lot of that the week before but didn't know then what the moving date was. (We thought it would happen in April). B, the helper and my brother, T, did all the work of carrying and loading the trailer while the ladies filled totes and boxes. We didn't leave Detroit until about eight on that night. Originally, my sister and I thought we'd return later to clean but my brother thought we should do all that on Thursday so we wouldn't have to return. But we weren't able to get everything into the trailer or my van, and by the time eight o clock came we were to tired to do much cleaning. Fri my brother brought the trailer to my sister's condo and he and B unloaded the heavy furniture. My brother asked his daughter in law for help and she brought her five kids who brought up most of the totes. For those of you that don't know or don't remember my sister, M, has been living in Detroit since she went to college there. She has the beginnings of Alzheimer's and we wanted her closer to her family so we could help her and be more available to her as her memory fails. We also want the chance to enjoy spending time with her before she can't remember who we are. She spent several hours at my house yesterday mostly so T, my sister could work on some boxes without M watching her every move. M used my computer to check her email because she doesn't have Internet yet nor have we found her Chromebook. I'll try to peek back here in the next week or so but I'll be spending a lot of time at my sister's helping her unpack when I'm not washing windows. I miss you all.