From the Water’s Edge: Intergenerational blessings and challenges
Intergenerational care comes with blessings and challenges. Some of you know my – soon to turn 102-year-old – mother Frances Bartlett, known by many in this community as Grandma Bartlett or simply Grandma. Some know her well enough to occasionally stop by our home in the Valley for a sit-down visit. When you do, you likely find her sitting in her big gray recliner in our living room leaning over a word search book bought at the Dollar Tree or a 300-piece jigsaw puzzle bought at Walmart. Mom survived the depression – she really knows how to stretch a dollar.