Two different kinds of winners

My mom died last night. I'm not sad as much as happy for her.
My father died three and a half years ago and she never managed to learn to enjoy life without him. They had become so completely welded together that I don't think either of them knew where one ended and the other began.

My father was as devoted a husband as I have ever seen, and I hope that now my mom will be able to forgive him for "going first".

I will miss my mom.

I feel that she played the "Game of Life" to the best of her abilities and at the end she Won.

Goodbye Mom, try not to be too hard on Dad if he's a little late meeting you due to some heavenly invention he's working on.

And on a completely different note. . . . .

I have a winner to my little "Leave me a comment Win a 20$ Target Gift card" contest/giveaway.

My sweet friend Jeanette Mortensen!

Congrats Jeanette. I was really excited that she turned up the winner.

Her husband has been a casualty of the bad economy and I know she's been struggling with the same problems my daughter and her husband Jeff have been dealing with for the last couple of years. So I couldn't be happier that she ended up the winner.
Jeanette, go out and get something nice just for you!

Well, to everyone else, this was fun and I don't think I'll wait for my 300th post to have another giveaway.