ChatterLei

I found out today that my ex-sister-in-law told her adult daughter (my husband’s niece) a few years ago that the reason she left her children’s dad all those years ago was because he drank all the time and was never home.

Wait…WHAT?! Did I mention she left ALL five children? With him??

So he wasn’t good enough for her to live with, but he was good enough to raise their children?!

He was a great father to those children. He raised them well. They are all hard-working married adults with families of their own.

By the way, her daughter, who was not the youngest child)  was in the second grade when she came home from school one afternoon and asked her older sister where their mom was. The older sister told her she packed her suitcase and left and was not coming back. (She ran off with the preacher who lived across the street, who left his wife and kids, as well.)

Now, this same daughter who was in the second grade when her mom left, is doing all of the footwork and jumping through all of the hoops trying to figure out a way to get her dying 71-year-old dad on Medicaid and a place to take him to get the care he needs for his last days of life.

She may end up moving him into her home on hospice, which means a disruption to her family. She is still working her fulltime job, and will be caring for her father the best she can.

While her mother lives in a house in a gated community nearby that she purchased from her preacher husband’s million dollar life insurance policy three years ago… and has not offered a penny to her daughter or to help in any way.

My husband and I are going to pay off the $400 bill for the center transporting her dad to three appointments. And we are going to give some money to our niece to use however it is helpful to her to get her dad’s house ready to sell.

Sometimes, life is so out of balance.