September 2026 Island Trip – Day 7
We slept in, and slept really well! In nights leading up to Saturday neither of us were sleeping well. My brain wouldn’t stop working on gathering details… Waking up 3ish was an exercise in ticking off things already on a list… Night brain 🙄. After breakfast I met my daughter in town. We wandered the […]
September 2026 Island Trip – Day 6
We held the Celebration of Life for my folks this afternoon. It was a just what I hoped; a gathering of people who loved and appreciated them, and found delight in being together. I saw hugs that come with recognition of friends not seen for too long. My heart is full. My middle daughter and […]
September 2026 Island Trip – Day 4
Today was mostly about preparations for Saturday. Fortunately some of that involved picking apples! I also got a load of laundry done and hung up. We made a lovely little pizza for dinner and got to bed on time, for a change.
September 2026 Island Trip – Day 3
Sleep was elusive this morning. I was in active thought mode about, mostly, the gathering. While not sleeping when I should have been was annoying, I did get some actionable things lined up in my 3-7AM brain. Yeah, it was quite a stretch of time. And then I was able to sleep from 7ish until […]
September 2026 Island Trip – Day 2
The day started by volunteering with a group of gals who were dehydrating apples for the food bank. They, among other things, had the same KitchenAid gadget I do for slicing and coring apples. That was my station! By the time we were done, the kitchen smelled amazing as the apples started drying in the […]
September 2026 Island Trip – Day 1
The day has gone exceptionally well, except for discovering the electric fence around the plum tree was damaged, and the plums have been pilfered 😢. More on that below. Packing out, which has been most on my mind, went so well that we left early, and we didn’t even use all our potential cooler cubic. […]
Two Vehicles…
The night before last my DH had a brilliant thought and suggested that we take both the car and the truck to the Island. All sorts of packing anxiety (yes, that’s been a thing!) sloughed away! It’s more than all the food and beverages we’re taking for the gathering, but baking dishes for various menu […]
Shopping
Today was my ‘big shop’ before heading to the Island. A week ago I thought it was going to be onerous. It really wasn’t! Getting out of Whole Food’s parking lot was onerous!! There’s road work going on and I don’t think the city has adjusted the traffic lights to accommodate. One vehicle leaving the […]
Fruit Flies
My DH took his mom to her annual checkup today. This was a good time for me to go through her apartment and excise the expired food, recycle the long expired magazines, redundant notes she leaves for herself and then writes again, toss the no longer relevant notes from her community, etc. I was not […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 