Beginning to Lighten Up and Not Take Things So Seriously

I was feeling like this waterhose - all wound up tight and going round and round in circles!! But now I'm beginning to unwind and loosen up. I'm realizing that everybody's just doing the best they can and there's no need to be so uptight. A lot of it is quite comical. Day by day, one day at a time, that's all any of us can do!

Mother's Day

Had a busy but good Mother's Day. Went to visit my 3 yr. old great niece in the hospital this morning in place of church, then on to have lunch with my husband's family, youngest daughter, her husband and my granddaughter, then to rehab to visit my mother. Came home and got a call from my oldest daughter who lives out of town. So it was a busy but pleasant day.

Hope everyone else had a wonderful Mother's Day today.

Peace

Before I left home today, this bloom just spoke to me and I grabbed my camera. This is a bloom we have on our peace lily (or at least that's what I've heard this houseplant called around here). That's what I wanted this morning was peace. It's a beautiful bloom and I wanted to post a very close photo of it on here for everyone to enjoy.

My mother was moved this afternoon to a rehab/nursing type facility. It's emotionally a big change in life but I just keep telling myself to take this one day at a time. Thank goodness I have other family to talk to and share this with them. I feel a growing period coming for me:)

Flooding and Crossword Puzzles

We are flooding, flooding, flooding in this area. No photos though. My camera may be getting rusty!

My mother is very much improved and may possibly move from the hospital to rehab tomorrow. If not tomorrow, maybe Monday. They will not move her on a weekend. Tomorrow I will probably help her with crossword puzzles. Some of her medication is making her hands too shaky to write plus she needs to go for an eye exam. My brother suggested that maybe I could just read to her the hints and she can figure out the answers, I'll write them down and we'll just work crossword puzzles together. Good idea. That should be fun. It's one of her favorite things to do.

Stress is slowly melting away. I picked up my camera and couldn't resist to start with photos again so here is just a photo of a crossword puzzle book - sort of an "icon" for the day tomorrow. Nothing exciting but it is a photo!

More Documentation

Had a setback today, some sort of infection but haven't been told what kind so this will delay her transferring to rehab. Both sisters have gone back home so it's me and my brother. He has a lot of her business to take care of and has a job so I'm going to the hospital and staying with her all day. I did have a break today at lunch to eat with Emily and Paige which was fun. Emily was so sweet and bought my lunch. Thank you, Em:) And thanks for the listening ear. Tomorrow will be the same. She might get to leave by Fri or Monday.

Emotions

Emotions are really coming into play now. I am very touched by all of your comments here and your true expressions of caring about me and my mother and my family. I'm having a tough time praying so I'm glad you are praying for us. But this is just a stage in life that most people have to go thru and we're all trying to get thru it the best we know how. Still no photos. Just wake up, go to hospital, come home, go to bed, repeat.

Emergency

No photos. This blog has been interrupted by an emergency. My brother and I took our mother to the ER where she lives on April 28 around 12:30 that night (or really, morning). She stayed in ER for approximately 8 hrs. or so to get her stable enough to go to ICU. She just got out of ICU yesterday, the 5th of May into a regular room.

I hope to come back to this blog with photos and documentation of what happens every day in this year I turn 60 soon.