Lemons

This has been a very sad week. First of all, my mom is very sick. She has not gotten sick for years, but this week she really got hit. We're thinking its bronchitis or something worse. I hate watching my mom suffer.
For the past few weeks, my grandma has been having health issues, and she went into the hospital earlier this week for surgery. After the surgery, she got some sort of infection and her health just went downhill for a couple days, and last night she passed away. Thankfully, I got to see her in the hospital before the surgery, and I also got to spend a couple hours there last night before she died, along with most of my extended family.
Later I found out that my mom's uncle also died today. His health has been bad for a while now.
Since my mom is sick, she called in to say she couldn't work, but they could not get a replacement for her so she had to work anyway. She didn't feel like driving, so I took her to Bellingham, as she coughed her lungs out and sounded awful. A couple minutes down the Guide Meridian, a policeman pulled me over....I wasn't wearing my seatbelt. Wonderful. I thought since this is the first time I have ever gotten pulled over, maybe he would give me a warning or something. But no, 124 dollar ticket. Is it just me or does it seem like policemen are just out to ruin people's day? Maybe they measure how well they did their job each day by seeing how many people they could get to cry, or how miserable they could make someone's life. Who doesn't get at least a slight feeling of dread when they see those awful blue and white cars.
Later at the doctor's office, I was in the car waiting for my mom, and I turned on her music, Roger Whitaker singing "Life throws you a lot of lemons, you've got to learn how to make lemonade or you'll be sour all your days." (I love my mom's oldies). Yep, this week has been very lemon-y. I guess I need to learn to make lemonade.