Christmas 2016 ~ Day Five
December 27 Christmas 2016 ~ Day 5 I am tucked into Tim and Cindy’s cabin on the Island, after 9+ adventurous hours with mom, accompanied by dark cherry and almond infused chocolate, and a really good glass of wine. I don’t even know how to begin… Following, not necessarily in order, are the highlights of […]
Christmas 2016 ~ Day 4
Mom had a VERY difficult time choosing what to take back to the Island. In the end, she chose three small pieces of furniture, and odds and ends to fill up the extended cab of the truck. She had endless reasons why easily packed items couldn’t come back. At one point I had to keep […]
Christmas (Day) 2016 ~ Day 3
Other than being schooled on: Potatoes should be roasted on cookie sheets, rather than in Pyrex dishes. The roast should stand on its end while outside of the fridge for two hours before cooking. The fact neither of us told her a couple, who has joined us for Christmas for the last five-ish years, was […]
Christmas 2016 ~ Day 2
Today mom: Thought two gifts hadn’t been opened. When I said we hadn’t opened any gifts yet, she looked quizzical, and upon hearing that tomorrow was Christmas, she tossed her head back with a dramatic flair, hand to forehead, and said, “Oh Yes!” This while missing the tree still has a full crop of gifts […]
Christmas 2016 ~ Day 1
It snowed our whole drive from the ferry landing to the house. Enough snow that when you looked to the side of the road, the air was a swirl of white. Mom exclaimed a few times that it hadn’t snowed like this since she was a kid in the Midwest. Other than the current meteorological […]
Pre-Flight
In the past four days mom has called me 22 times to confirm our plans, asking the same question/s several times each call. She even went so far as to have our friend Tim call me, on her behalf, because she couldn’t get a hold of me last night while my husband took me to […]
Gearing up for Chritsmas
As is the norm, mom is burning up the phone wire in order to confirm, and reconfirm (again, and again) our Christmas plans. These include, date and time of when I’ll pick her up at the ferry, where we’ll have Christmas dinner, who will attend dinner, which SO/SIL is attached to which granddaughter, here or […]
Firewood
Last Saturday morning mom called to tell me she was down to her last 6 pieces of firewood, but, after some effort, had managed to arrange two different deliveries of cord wood. She was hoping one of them would show up that day. I called her Saturday evening to ask how the day had gone, […]
Mom’s Joke
The Great Debate About a century ago, the Pope decided that all the Jews had to leave Rome. Naturally there was a big uproar from the Jewish community. So the Pope made a deal. He would have a religious debate with a member of the Jewish community. If he won, the Jews would leave. The […]
Mail Update
I called mom’s Island post office this morning. The good news is mom has not been receiving mail each day, and then forgetting about it. The bad news is mom’s mail was still on hold since November 23rd, when she left the Island for the Thanksgiving holiday. She’s been back on the Island for 7 […]
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 