Grumbles
Mom short-paid her mortgage again. She paid a varient of the total amount she’s paid year-to-date. Thank heavens it was a varient, or she’d have overpaid the mortgage by more than $12,000.00. To fix this, I have to go to two banks, wait a day or two, and then make a phone call to the […]
September 2016 Island Trip Day 3
September 21 – Day 3 Mom, uncharacteristically, didn’t join me in town when I headed to the ferry. As we said good bye, I told her, at the latest, we’d see each other at Thanksgiving, which we’d be celebrating at Daughter #2’s, as our place would be in shambles due to remodeling projects. Mom: “You […]
September 2016 Island Trip Day 2
September 20 – Day 2 I got a lot done today. The east wall of mom’s house is painted, as is a beam, an edge of wall above the north wood framed windows, and the first 20% of one side of the hall. It was here that the gallon of paint ran out. I ran […]
September 2016 Island Trip Day 1
September 19, Day 1 The big wonderful news today is that mom’s long suffering neighbor not only knew exactly where the gray water outlet was (like instantly), but had the time to hatch a plan to permanently fix the problem, and execute the plan, all without roving county inspectors catching us. Water will no longer […]
Devil’s in the Details!
I had a really good, but funny chat with mom last night. These are some of the topics we covered: Flank Steak. Mom was having flank steak for dinner. She started our conversation by telling me this twice in a row, and to her credit, half way through the second telling, asked me if she’d […]
Mom was right there.
Mom used to work in one state, the one my first husband, our children and I lived in, and lived in another. She had an interesting commute. She worked for a very well know university’s art history department as an editor. This job led to her specialization in certain genres of art, and she was […]
Stroller and Car Safety ala Mom
My mom and dad gave me and my first husband a check for $60 when our first child was born, over 30 years ago. Its purpose was to buy a good stroller. Mom was a big believer in ‘walking the baby.’ That amount of money went a tad further than it does today, and we […]
Mild Behavioral Impairment Checklist
Another good article by the NY Times explaining how “personality change may be (an) early sign of dementia.” When I fill in the associated checklist for my mother, she scores affirmatively on fully half of the questions.
Dementia Dance - Travels with Mom 