Belleaire

Hi everyone,

Teresa's daughter here again. My mom passed away this morning at approximately 7:55am, with EJ holding her hand. She went peacefully, and didn't seem to be in pain.

The memorial service will be on January 7th, 12pm, at the El Chico in Garland, Texas. If you're interested in coming, please RSVP via the Facebook invite, which is located at https://www.facebook.com/events/22… It should be public, so you should be able to RSVP even if you don't have an account (I think?).

EJ and I are doing as well as possible.

Donations requested in lieu of flowers. It's worth mentioning that the cancer she died form, Ewing's Sarcoma, is an "orphan" disease, meaning that it gets very little research funding.

Donations can be directed to:

Ewing’s Research Foundation
106 Towerview Court
Cary, NC 27513

Or can be completed online at http://www.ewingssarcoma.org/Suppo…

As a note, I have no intention of closing this blog down.

Announcing No-Harm, No-Foul Friday!

I'm about to make an Flist cut, so if you want to beat me to it without guilt or even a second thought, here's your 24-hour chance to make it so. There are several people with whom I've lost regular contact, or with whom I no longer share any points of commonality. Because of those reasons, I'm reluctant to continue to leave my Journal as open as it is.

If you feel the same way, please take this opportunity to ACT NOW without regrets or fears of reprisal.

My Friends list has been trimmed a bit. This doesn't mean I think anyone is a bad person, just that either we've grown apart, or I felt that our personalities and interests didn't really mesh to begin with. I wish each of you health and happiness!

eliset told me she had been asked by several people why I took your name off my Friends list. It wasn't done with malice, nor dislike for you in any way.

I noticed fewer posts from each of you, and didn't know if that was because you had fallen away from LJ, or had begun filtering me out of your entries. There were also almost no responses to any of my posts. I realize, too, that I make a lot of journal entries, and may have been clogging up your Friends page, even with lj-cuts, so my journal may not have been on your Default View anymore. I tried to respond intelligently or supportively to as many of your journal entries as possible, but wasn't getting anything back. Eventually it felt like I was oversharing, and frankly, it felt embarrassing, so I stopped.

This doesn't mean that I'm not your friend anymore. I still expect you to hold still long enough for a hug every time I see you in person.

I think tafnaj has my phone number, plus an email address that is checked daily. If anybody else in this group wants to contact me directly, you are more than welcome to do so through email - PieretteX2 at yahoo dot com - or ask my daughter for my phone number.