She Made It In A Week

I have been taking care of Marie Aubin Lizotte since November of 2017.
She amazes me every day. She goes from bright and alert to knocking on death's door to bright and alert again. She is one hundred two years old, soon to be one hundred three in July.
Marie is known for her ability to grow flowers, state her opinions and her handwork. Today's story is about one of her creations.

Marie 102 Years

This week on her good days, Marie seemed to me to be in a cleaning frenzy. Cleaning the top of her cedar chest has never been a priority for her. Her papers and magazines plus needed "stuff" accumulates through the years.
She saves every card and letter that she receives in the mail. It may seem silly, but when you are alone your loved ones'
correspondence is like reaching out and living their life with them.

Rhonda Mason
Granddaughter

One day about two weeks ago she told me a "story" about a dress that she made that was similar to a dress that she had seen in a store. The dress was crocheted. She admired that dress and to anyone that saw her they would think that she was just touching and feeling and checking out the quality of the dress. Not so. She was counting stitches like her mother taught her to do. I just found that tidbit out this week from one of her niece's comments about her grandmother telling her to buy something she liked, don't take the tags off then take it to her and she would recreate it; clever.
This morning she directed her son to open her cedar chest that has been sitting by her chair as long as I have known her. We cleared off the remaining things, and to our surprise there lay on top of her prized possessions, was the crocheted dress.
Marie is a fan of the internet ever since I started writing a blog about her life. She pointed to my phone. She wanted me to put a picture of it on the computer. She calls it that "thing." So I draped her melon colored dress over her clothes and Fran, her son, snapped some pictures.
Here is her prized creation after her death August 30, 2018 being modeled by her granddaughter, Rhonda Mason. Life goes on....