3 Hearts Vintage

After a two week break caring for mom's needs,  I'm back into the swing of things on both my Etsy Shop and Blog! I've been busy getting the last haul up on line and planning the next shopping trip! Its been nearly 3 weeks since Liv and I were out and about picking. Our favorite things we found on the trip were these Fire King Relish Trays made of milk glass with a gold rim. Mom had two of these and used them faithfully during the holiday season or special occasions. She told me that she got them both at a local gas station. They were given away when your punch card got to 5 gas tank fills....hahahaha. I always found that funny and Liv does too. I have one of mom's two in my cupboard, and it will be there forever until I hand it down to the next generation. I use it faithfully during the holiday season too. When I spotted these two on the shelf, Liv was right behind me and saw them almost at the same time I did. "Grandma, your dish and there are two of them"!

Its been a long, long  two weeks. It started with  phone call on February 17 from the nursing home about my mother needing  to go to Urgent Care. It was discovered she was battling Pneumonia.  This was accomplished and she was taken back to the home after a healthy dose of antibiotic. All was well for the moment, until the next day February 18th....this trip sent her to the hospital via the ambulance. After a exhaustive search for the right antibiotic combo and trying to drain the lung with no luck she was brought back to the nursing home she has lived in for the past 2 years to be placed into comfort care on February 28th. Mom was born on June 11th, 1926 (she is 91) in Francesville, IN to George and Marie Pfledderer. She came from a proud German family of 16 siblings and she was third from the bottom. When she was three she stepped out on the front porch of the farm house and promptly fell through a rotten board. Her leg was broken in two spots, and  her family struggled with the ca