I'm Marjorie Punnett, and this is Best to the Nest, the podcast that's all about creating strong,

comfortable, beautiful nests that prepare us to fly.

Elizabeth has flown.

She's on a girls' weekend.

And Ian and I, Ian Punnett, my husband, are about to fly to Florida because we are now on

the another side of caring for our parents. And that's a little bit about

what we were going to talk about today. Hey, hon. Hey, sweetie. You ready to leave at five o'clock in the

morning? Yeah, for an old girl's weekend. Yeah. That's kind of what it is. It's been, it's been, I was counting up the other, the other night. My mom was

actually with us here in Kansas for about 18 months. And I've talked a lot about in this podcast

about what it's been like to care for her, sort of the unexpected difficulties. She had a very tough last year of her life. My mother's problem

was she would fall down. She would forget that she couldn't walk and then she would get up to

try and walk. She'd try and get up to go get a Reese's cup. And then it would be a disaster. It would

end up in an emergency room because her skin was so, she was so frail and her skin was so thin.

And it was just, it was all very complicated.

And I think so much on this podcast, we talk about what it's like to take care of young children and what it's like to create a home when you're raising a family.

And you and I are really living through sort of the,

what it's like when your family is dying. I mean, to be quite frank.

It's a process everybody goes through. If you ever want a better idea of how much time

your mom spent next door to us and how much time we spent giving her

personal attention, just ask my mother, who is keeping close track of what she wasn't getting.

Could you feel that?

Sure. I think that's also a natural thing, oddly enough, is that people become very aware of what their kids give to in-laws and where you're living.

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