I hope this isn't inappropriate to post, but I wanted to share this with friends and hopefully I have some friends or future friends here on Daily Kos. Today is free cone day at Ben and Jerry's:
http://www.benjerry.com/...
We'll probably head up to the local Ben and Jerry's at our local mall -- Dulles Town Center in Sterling.
If my mother were alive, I would be taking her out to the local Ben and Jerry's in Baltimore. Mom had advanced Parkinsons and spent the last six years of her life in a nursing home. Moving her into a nursing home was emotionally hard on all of us. I know at first she felt that we were abandoning her, but my father visited her several times a week and my sisters saw her frequently.
I took her out once a week, for lunch and usually for ice cream. I was wrestling with depression at the time, but I learned from my mother that ice cream could always make things a little brighter.