we had our annual Christmastime dinner with my now 85 y/o Mom, her 89 y/o Brother and my 92 y/o Father. The last couple of years haven’t been easy on these loved ones. Their steady decline with intermittent crises of falls, surgeries, and hospitalizations has been really hard but yet we still count our blessings (they all three still have their wits about them) and store up the good time remaining.