I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
We have all calmed down today and she is going to the Rose of Monahan today.
I just want her to be someplace nice and not her hoarder house. and she wants to go there .
My father has calmed down too. It wasnt an ira but some fund that pays her dividends each year. My father is very old school and very secretive about money.
sign read three types of pressure
mild
strong
powerful
I requested mild
Today, I feel like I was in a fight
To all caregivers, take it a day, a morning, afternoon, hour at a time. Whatever works for the current situation. Compartmentalizing is the only way I have gotten through the last decade. Little enjoyments add up. Right now I am enjoying my coffee at this minute...whatever happens next nobody is going to take this cup away!
If you haven't gotten your REAL ID license yet, there is a glitch when going to the Motor Vehicles Dept with your birth certificate, and other forms of identification that you need.... if your last name doesn't match your birth certificate, you need to bring in your marriage license..... this requirement wasn't on our State list of what to bring in with you.
I was lucky that my State was able, for a small fee, to go into the State records to get the marriage license as long as I had been married in that State. If I had been married in another State, I would have needed to drive back home and dig for that old marriage license.
Looking back, life would have been easier if I had kept my maiden name, but women rarely did that way back when.
Anyhoo, I am breathlessly waiting to see how my photo had turned out. Will know in a week's time :P
The other day I went to turn over a sofa cushion and lo and behold more dry cat food. And here I thought the cats were enjoying that brand and flavor the whole time.
I read somewhere that mice do not like the smell of peppermint, so I bought a spray bottle of Mrs. Myers mint spray. I am hoping to discourage new mice house hunters looking for a place to live. I need to place a small sign at the cat's water bowl "enter at your own risk, no lifeguard on duty", as my cat "Rosie" had drown two mice already.
So refreshing to begin my morning reading your lighthearted comments of the cat and mouse story :)
And then, the RealID ..... I can give you a heads up on that.... my photo showed an older, fatter face :) but luckily (or not), I got my new license on the same visit.
Thank goodness, I remembered to check TP supply last night!😵
Barb, ouch!
Thanks for asking! Needed sympathy~!
Then my husband's sister died, leaving us to be the only caregiver for his mom, 89. We would like to move, we would like to travel while my husband's heart condition isn't too bad, but each day revolves around that phone call to his mom now. In contrast, my mom moved far away from her family and my grandmother's care went to her sister. My MIL did a little care giving, but my husband's grandmother lived with his aunt. Then, as cwillie says, "no good deed goes unpunished" as we have no one to be there for us when we get very old....
I take each day one at a time. I have really learned to look for happiness in very small things.
for many years, always went to the Hollywood bowl for fireworks and a picnic
now, I find illegal fireworks going off at 2 in the morning, just plain stupid
But Polar - I'm not sure that voting for a person means you love him or her, or even agree with more than half of what he or she seems to stand for.
At the moment, it looks as if we in the UK at the next general election will have a choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn for Prime Minister. I realise that won't mean much to anyone, but let me tell you tears are pricking my eyes as I type. God help us. What's a poor voter to do?