Mom passed peacefully today just after 3pm with my brother and me by her side. Though it's been a difficult week, I'm so grateful for the blessing of the past 4.5 years with her after her first stroke, where I saw her in a new way and really came to appreciate all of the sacrifices she made for my brother and me after our dad passed when we were children. God's plan is better than ours and we have to trust and believe in Him always.
Mom was a beautiful singer and always said she wished she could dance, but that she knew one day she'd get to dance with Gene Kelley in heaven!