Could not have said it better myself Tracy. We lost my mother in Sept this past year, and all of us have been affected by it differently. I did get my baby sister into quilting to help her focus on something else, and it has made a world of difference. In the past 3 years I have had to endure emotional pain that no grand mother should have to go through, and I will never entirely heal from it, but as the years go by and my grandson thrives it does make it easier.