My Mother's New Home

Pheasant Pointe is a senior and assisted living complex located on East Main Street in my childhood home town of Molalla,OR.

While I grew up on a small farm seven miles out of town, in the farming area of the Willamette Valley, my parents moved to East Main Street during their retirement years.  Their house is just across the street and a block down.

This is Mom's neighborhood, where she went to school, worked at the highschool, and sent her kids to school.  She knows lots of people in and around this town.

She also knows lots of people in this complex.  She has visited here often, and has attended Bible Study here every Wednesday morning for years now.

We visited her this evening in her new apartment, where she looks very settled, and seems happy.  We know that she is well cared for. I baked a rhubarb cake this morning at home in Seattle, and this evening we shared it in our first cake and coffee session.

Tomorrow we'll be working across the street, making more progress toward clearing out her house.  But we'll walk over in the afternoon to take Mom outside for a stroll around the complex in the sunshine.  We might even eat some more of that cake.

And I can't begin to express how thankful I am that this woman, who lived frugally, and in near poverty much of her life, has, with my late father, managed to invest enough that she can afford this wonderful care.

Every time I have arrived here so far, I have heard the beautiful song of a red winged blackbird.  We're all singing for joy!