Hey everyone. Mid july I got the call my mom's fight with cancer wasn't going well. I packed up my car in an emergency and drove 9 hours to go see her. By the time I got there, everyone already had agreed she was going into hospice at home now.
I got to see my mother alive and sitting up talking only the day I got there. The rest of the week she was bed bound and resting as we visited around her. She passed away July 25th in the evening with my sister Lori being there for her and bidding her farewell. I'm really glad they got to have that.
My only plans were to come up and visit from monday - sunday. But because of the passing happening so quickly during hospice I decided to stay an extra week to attend her funeral and be there for my family.
Learned a lot about my mom from second hand conversations. I'm having a lot of very complicated feelings about all of this right now. I left the day after the funeral to drive home. I am now safely at home just slowly unpacking the car from items I took from my childhood home. There is still a lot more there I need to retrieve, but because they are large furniture items we will have to take a moment and plan the next steps of how we're transporting it and where it will be stored until after our move next summer. These items at this time will not fit in my current small house rental.
My july break was completely interrupted and I didn't get to actually do any work. So I have made a difficult decision (for my finances) to take another break for the month of August. I'm still very emotionally torn up and grieving. But I also have a lot of work that needs to be completed before I can take any new orders. So I'll be pausing my patreon for the month of August. Patrons will not be charged.
I wi ll grieve. I will rest. I will complete pending commission orders. And then next month, September 2024, I will resume my patreon services and mail out rewards.
Thank you so much for the gentle support from patons. Thank you to my community and friends who reached out to make sure I was keeping my head. Thank you for looking out for me complete strangers. I need every shred of kindness and patience I can get right now and I just need to not be ashamed to ask for that. Times are hard. It's even harder now. But I'm strong, I know I will continue to move forward.
So thank you everyone.
Mom, I miss you. I hope you can rest in peace now.
AJD . ART
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