Walkin' Boulder: Circle of Life
Walkin' Boulder
By Sue Deans
The former editor of the Camera blogs about exploring Boulder on foot.
October 21, 2011
This has been a chaotic autumn for my family. Even though I’ve been “running around” a lot, I haven’t been able to do too many of my usual walks.
Next week I will share with you a two-part blog about the University of Colorado’s East Campus, part of a 7-mile walk I did last week.
Just a day after that, family events started happening quickly.
My first grandchild, Daric Jeffrey Foss, was born on Saturday, Oct. 15, a week early. Of course we are all gaga about him and I have been making frequent trips to see him, for the first few days at Lutheran Hospital in Wheat Ridge and now at his home in Arvada. His parents are my son, Jeff Foss, and his wife, Wendy, and his big sister is Lexus Limmer, Wendy’s daughter.
Of course we think Daric is the most beautiful baby ever.
On the other side of the circle of life, my dad has been ill for several months and this past week my brothers and I moved him from his independent living apartment in Thornton into nursing care at the same facility where he and my mother have been living for the last few years. My mother has Alzheimer’s disease and lives in a memory care nursing unit.
Young Daric will be visiting both his great-grandparents soon. Shortly after he was born, he met his maternal great-grandmother, Jean Cimino, who was hospitalized this past summer after a stroke but is making a great recovery.
Happy and sad, all at once!