Time Keeps Ticking Away

On December 23rd my father passed away. He had a long fight with cancer(Multiple Myeloma) and two days before Christmas the Lord took him home to Heaven. It never is an easy thing to say goodbye to ones you love.

While visiting with my mom at her house a few days after my dad passed away, we were getting ready to leave and she looked at her clock and saw that the time was wrong. She went over to set it to the correct time and found that it had stopped working. It was like one of those scenes from a movie as she started to cry and then laugh and then cry again as she said, “It Died”. Then she turned to me and said “I have had this clock for over 40 years”. Her marriage to my dad was 48 years. She had so many memories wrapped up in this clock, and it wasn’t sad that the clock had died but it was just another reminder that my dad had also died.

So my husband, being sweet like he is and wanting to always help fix what is wrong, (even if it is a clock) offered to take the clock home and fix it. Well we haven’t got very far with this but I have high hopes that we can work it out.

This is one of those cool retro clocks that have magnetic rings that go around the month, day of the week and the date. I am sure its from the 60′s. I just love it!

My mom reassured me the other day that even if we don’t fix it, she wants it back to hang in the kitchen. I promised we would give it back.

This clock is a constant reminder to me of how things may get old but the life(memories) we put in them never dies!