Posted 3/28/22 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself. There is no commandment greater than these.” -Mark 12:30-31 Whew! We are nearing another beginning to a work week…or, as…
Tag: SeniorAge
(Semi-)Shawshank Re: Dementia Day 495 (1 Year, 130 days): Challenges Aplenty
Posted 7/21/21 Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. –Matthew 7:21 (a.k.a. The scariest verse in the Bible, IMHO) Have you noticed that there seems to be some truth to the ole adage “When it…
Happy Giving Tuesday!
Posted 12-3-19 Update: Mom was super sweet yesterday in my visit. She has so much to (try to) say and that it is heartbreaking. Some days I feel like she is frustrated in communicating and other days she just rolls with it. Praying for her peace and comfort and that her anxiety level stays low….
Wormyville
Posted 7-10-19 For much of my childhood, we lived in a neighborhood nicknamed Wormyville. This Beaver Cleaver-esque community could have been named this because the roads wormed every which way since they really seldom went East/West or North/South in any sense, but it was actually named that way after the original developer, a nice man…
Changing Times
Posted 4-17-19 One of mom’s most amazing traits is her flexibility and willingness to change. Mom was a stay-at-home mom for many, many years and gradually entered the workforce later in our childhood. Later in our early adulthood, needing money but balanced with wanting to be an available mom/grandma, mom worked for temp agencies…a lot….
Team
Posted 4-15-19 Happy Tax Day, all. I hope you caught my “sweet” tax day early post from a couple days ago. If not, here it is: Link. I was involved (personally) in team sports the first 18 years of life in one way or another. I was probably brought in utero to sporting events that…
The Smaller they are, the Harder They Fall
Posted 3-12-19 One of the biggest challenges seniors face later in life is avoiding harmful falls. My mom has fallen several times since she had been in a memory unit (and before) and it seems to be a very common thing in her facility. (See this link to yesterday’s post of the Sweet 17 princess’s…
Thankful
2/15/19 Another extremely good day for mom yesterday. When she gets her meds, sleeps and has a “normal” digestive day, all seems to be stable after a few months of significant decline. 🙂 The atmosphere at the unit seems to be quieter these days too, which helps mom quite a bit. I am very thankful…