marthe! I am glad your mother is home again. Wonderful news, GinaP :cool:

Thanks Gina, you are all so kind. All we need now is better weather, so she can go outside. But it is still winter and in Belgium it is raining and raining. There are a lot of people who are ill, the flue is everywhere. For old people this is very bad. I hope my mother will not get it. My boss who is 88, also has the flue. It is the second time this winter. So that is not so good. I have seen him one time this year. He came to the firm for half an hour for New Year 's greetings. We all miss him. He was a very good boss, honest, sometimes severe, but with a good heart. He started when he was 20 and was the great boss until 2006, when his son took over the shares. But our boss did not stop working and came every day to the firm. But last year he became serious ill and had to go to the hospital. They removed his gall bladder. And since this operation, he is not the same person anymore. He has become very weak. But that is normal at his age. Every day he gives us a ring. The firm is his life, and being home now, ill and not stong, that is hard for him.

Awwww,poor man,hope he can feel better soon. He sounds like a very dedicated,and,has been a very hard-working person. Those things are hard to find in a lot of people these days. I'm sure he has been an extremely industrious man in his day....and that's hard for him to give up!