SOAP BOX – 1 PARENTING YOUR PARENT Ok! Drum roll please, getting up on my soap box finally! I want to present my opinion on a subject that causes me irritation by those of differing opinions! However at the end of this post I will invite those of both views to express their opinions. The [...]
Well, I did not write a blog on Easter like I wanted to, it was the 4 year ‘anniversary’ of becoming mom’s full time caregiver. I think because it stirred up too many emotions to write about it, at least not on that day. I did however do some thought wandering back to those first [...]
I never had the pleasure of growing up with my grandparents as three of them had passed away before my birth and my mothers father died when I was a small child. We have pictures of my sister and I and my parents visiting him but sadly I have no memory of him. I can [...]
I am a firm believer in reading about a topic that you are dealing with, if you do not know anything about it or simply need to gain more knowledge and insight. Having said that….pertaining to caregiving….books only take you to a point…you can only learn so much from them, the rest is on the [...]
hands that scraped an apple, and mashed a banana, for me to eat when I was sick in bed hands that brought me that treasured round tin full of wonderful and magical buttons hands that brought me a glass of grape or apple juice hands that cleaned up after me each time I was sick [...]
It has been a what’s up with me kind of week. I have new blogs I want to write, titles already in place, but just can’t get my thoughts in order to finish them. Wanting a bedroom and bed is weighing on me this week too. Spring is coming one of my favorite seasons, but [...]
My husband recently said to me, “Do you know what you don’t do when you are taking care of mother?” I said, “What’s that?” He said, “You don’t talk to mother very much, and I always talk to her.” I said, “I know that but realize that you have always been a talker, my family [...]
I recently wrote a blog titled ‘Invisible People’, it was written as a result of an ‘experiment’ I did on facebook. One of my facebook friends, Kym, who is also a dear friend from my church, posted on Feb.22 that there were free pancakes being given away at a ihop the next day, and who [...]
Brownish – Greenish Stuff (2007) Brownish – greenish stuff, casserole types, mixed together meats, particularly beef, but also some ground turkey dishes, chop suey dishes with beef and brown sauce, pasta dishes, rice dishes, fish, unless finely chopped, most legume dishes, ham, unless finely chopped….these were not a few of mom’s favorite things! It was a frustrating first year trying to [...]
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Something triggered this thought recently. I can’t say what it was, but the thought was that, as caregivers, we are invisible people. We aren’t seen, aren’t heard from, aren’t thought about. Not all caregivers are in that category, but I’d be interested in doing a poll to see just how many felt that way!
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