Ruth spent the night and said mom had a pretty good night but didn't fall asleep until after 11:00 pm, she really does have her nights and days mixed up. I arrived around 5:30 am and mom had a tough time waking up. Breakfast of cream of wheat and a chocolate shake was ordered at 6:30 am and delivered around 7:00 am. She was able to eat some of each but was tired and not really hungry. At 10:00 am Joan arrived with mom's blood pressure pills. The hospital is no longer giving her the regular daily pills but we as a family felt she should at least have the blood pressure pills before her trip home. Amy arrived next to help with the big move. Below is her fancy ride to the non emergency ambulance.
The ambulance followed Joan right up to mom's house where a lot of the family were waiting. Ruth and Andi had brought over LOTS of lunch foods then this afternoon Cathy Kieser brought over another HUGE meal for dinner and of course she also brought her amazing home made goodies. Molly was so excited that Rachel brought over Lilly's booties to put on Molly so she wouldn't accidently scratch mom. 
Below are her 3 sons. It is pretty easy getting pictures of those siblings, much harder to get us 8 daughters.
So many of the grand children dropped off flowers and pictures. Mom loves the flowers and will enjoy looking at the pictures when she isn't so exhausted.
Joan held her at first as she was just too excited about mom being home.
She soon settled down and Amy made sure she was quiet. Soon both were taking a nap.
The hospice people arrived, the first to just do the paper work and the second was the RN to show us how to do things and explain what we should and shouldn't be doing. I think both may have been a little shocked at the amount of people milling around. One of them mentioned this was like a celebration of life a little early and was surprised when we explained this was just a few of the family.
Below are just a few pictures of some of the guests that enjoyed lunch or dinner AND enjoyed visiting with mom. She really was glad to be home. 
David and Stephanie's family came and David had a nice prayer with grandma. Ruth went home to sleep as she was up last night with mom, Joan went home to sleep as she drove all night to get home from Gulf Shores. There has been plenty of help for anything that needs to be done. Joan is coming over at 9:30 pm to spend the night. Tomorrow we start the home schedule. Today was a big day and even though I didn't do any horse work I'm tired and will head to bed soon. I'm SO thankful mom is home.
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