{"id":229,"date":"2009-08-24T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-08-24T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:12:00","slug":"hi-from-lyn-your-last-chance-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/hi-from-lyn-your-last-chance-to-win","title":{"rendered":"Hi from Lyn & Your Last Chance to Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mind if I share a bit?<\/p>\n

It’s been a rough 10 days. My mil’s funeral was yesterday. She was the
last of our parents to leave. (I found myself re-mourning the other loved ones of that generation and was weepy much of the time.) My mil was on a ventilator for the last two weeks in a Chicago hospital. An ordeal for everyone.<\/p>\n

And while she was failing more and more, my daughter and I opened and sorted
through nearly 90 years of accumulation. My mil and her sister who lived under the same roof for almost their whole lives never threw out a
greeting card or letter. Not even ones sent by their bank and
insurance companies!<\/p>\n

Some of it was great stuff. My daughter found the box of
letters that my in-laws wrote to each other while he served on the USS
Bunker Hill in WWII.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, many other of the letters were in Slovenian. My dh’s
grandparents immigrated from Slovenia (it was part of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire then and after WWII, it was a part of Yugoslavia) before WWI. I found Staramama’s (Slovenian for grandma) brothers’ two passports 1913 issued by Franz Joseph of Austria.<\/p>\n

PLEASE EVERYONE write the names of people on the back of photographs!
I didn’t throw any of the vintage ones out, but it was extremely
frustrating.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for us, they had had a flooded basement a few years ago
and they lost half of what they had accumulated. But we still managed
to have 7 solid days of sorting.<\/p>\n

We’ve spent 10 days here in the house in northern IL that will be sold
and today we get to drive home to our lake in the woods. I am so
homesick for WI.<\/p>\n

Oh, and we inherited the cat. Mootzie (mutza is Slovenian for cat)
will be going home with us–to our 3 cats (one belongs to our
daughter). Oh, it’s going to be a fun homecoming! HHHHIIIIISSSSSSS.<\/p>\n

Just wanted to chat and remind you that your last chance to be entered into a drawing for a copy of Her Inheritance Forever<\/a> <\/span><\/span>is this week and through August 31, 2009. I have been distracted by all this, but I will go through the comments weeks 2-4 and have a drawing for a winner for each week. As you can understand, I’ve been a bit distracted this month. But I promised to give away 4 copies of my August book and I will! Please be patient.<\/p>\n

Well, that’s been my week. And it has been good to be with family. Hope you all have a lovely last week of summer!–Lyn
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