News Flash: Worldwide Shortage of Gnomes!
No kidding this was a real headline in the last few days. The BBC reports that the Suez Canal blockage and worldwide supply chain issues due to the pandemic, have resulted in a worldwide shortage of Garden Gnomes!
Fortunately here at eQuilter we have anticipated the Worldwide Gnome Shortage and have stocked up heavily on Gnome fabrics from several different designers. Whew! We even have a few Gnome patterns in stock. Disaster averted!
This week started out with a bang. My mom had an accident (a fall) and I spent Monday at the emergency room with her. It was the longest amount of time I’ve spent with her since the pandemic started, but of course that is not the way I wanted to spend time with her.
Due to the injuries, when I brought her home from the hospital, they allowed me to come back to her room in her nursing home for awhile…also the first time in a year. (I’ve had two 30-minute supervised visits in the nursing home lobby, in the last couple weeks…first in-person visits in a year.)
Thank goodness I am vaccinated which opened the door for my entry. She was starving, because she had missed lunch, and enduring the ER uses up a lot of calories. So they brought her a tray of all kinds of things to tempt her. She looked at everything, and nothing was appealing to her. I said “Hey Mom, you know what they say…Life is Uncertain. Eat Dessert First.”
She looked at me, blinked a couple times, and said “I’ll have that chocolate ice cream.”
She scarfed down the ice cream, then the tomato soup, and then the chicken noodle soup. Turned up her nose at the orange jello.
At times like this, you just have to keep your sense of humor.
Mom is stable, and will be recovering from her injuries for several weeks, but none appear to be life-threatening. I made the most of my time with her, because we never know what tomorrow will bring. I held her hand and stroked her brow, while they stitched her up. When we were alone in the room, I sang what her mother used to sing to her. “You Are My Sunshine, My Only Sunshine…” The same song she used to sing to me at bedtime, and what I sang to my kids when I tucked them in when they were little.
…with hope for the future,
Luana and Paul
p.s. We need to sell our last few chocolate bars before it gets too warm. Please buy the last few bars of the season, on sale now for Mothers Day!
