I have no title for this blog today--

I attended a funeral for a former next door neighbor,Caroline Muhlstein. She was the mother of eight children, who for many years helped care for her Down's Syndrome sister-in-law, Vickie and left behind her husband, Grant of over forty years.

It was a heart wrenching, emotional filled meeting. The outstanding thread of the overall speakers was her great love for her family, her love of singing, and how she loved chocolate. She totally dedicated her life to raising a righteous posterity.

It almost seems so unfair for her to be taken, yet she had suffered with Alzheimer's disease the last five years. My heart goes out to them for their loss and understand the healing that must occur for them to bear through it all.

The family expressed their love for her for all that a mother did in the way she taught them to be good citizens, mothers and fathers to their own children. Each one expressed their gratitude of the mother that taught them the gospel and blessed them as they grew up. Her memory will be carried through her posterity, and her words of advice were how to manage an unruly child was to "just love them."

Even though she was my neighbor I didn't know all the other little personal things shared by her children. I knew her as being very quiet and shy, well groomed and always wore a smile on her face. She was a very selfless individual and went to great lengths to nurture each one of her children and was a loving companion to her husband. She was like Mary in the scriptures who sat at the feet of the Savior and learned how to teach her children truth.

I saw a family that worked together through the trials that came to them and who found joy in one another, the parents were bonded together forever by the sealing power of the holy priesthood that blessed their eternal union. They shared a very special romance in their relationship. The two had such a Love At Home kind of family.