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.
Mums gone to bed im elated! Criminal minds triple bill AND columbo one i havnt seen SH*T can life GET any better!
Mum has the opposite problem so i know what foods to give her OR avoid! rice water is good for diarrhea any fibre for constipation!
I literally begged her a minute ago to please just sit down for awhile and stop following right behind me. I had tears in my eyes.... please, for the love of GOD just sit still and stop questioning me. "Where do you want me to sit"? There, right there in your easy chair. "What chair, that chair"? Yes mom, that chair... tic toc "Can I go to the bathroom"? YES GO! "Where is it".
Brown paper bag....take me away....calgon is over-rated :/
I'm giving thought for a 3 day weekend during Labor Day. BUT... every single time I leave mom with the brothers she comes home bloodied, bruised and needing stitches. My SIL should bring her lazy ass here and SIT with mom for the 3 days (plus watch my dogs) but Nooooooooooo..... that would be too much like the right thing to do. So...for now I will wait and keep on keepin on with mom.
ff.... curtains from the 60's as a throw in the back seat?? LOL!!! I needed that laugh. I've been in such a foul mood for 2 days. If I was a turtle I'd be the snapping kind.
You know (yes I'm going to ramble for a bit) mom is not incontinent and with my assistance/guidance she is able to walk around. there are so many fun wonderful stimulating things we could be doing but.... as soon as come up with a brilliant plan (wink) yes I occasionally have brilliant plans, we get going on it and the complaining starts in... my bubble instantly pops and everything that was going to be a fun time turns into a giant chore and usually I end up wanting to just go home and .... drum roll;;;;;;; SIT sigh.... hate that
Today my plan is to take the dogs, chairs and a Mike's Hard Mango Madness Lemonade and sit by the river. My one and only friend whom also caretakes for her COPD mom is bringing her dog as well. We are trying to socialize them as her dog is extremely Alpha Female ( oh yeah, she potties with her leg up)!! If we get them used to each other then we can hang out and swim the last few weeks of summer in my backyard. ooops, I've digressed way off track! So far mom is all down with the idea.... you just wait 5 minutes into the journey..... grrrrrrrrrrrrr procrastination at it's finest! :)
Would go for a walk but its raining but i am going somewhere im going around the bend!!!!!!!!!!
Really now, do my parents really think someone would steal a half roll of paper towels?.... or Dad emergency Depends he has in a brown paper bag?.... or maps that are 15 years old?.... a pencil that is maybe 2" long?.... a variety of flower pattern umbrellas?... or the cloth that Mom has all the way across the back seat, which use to a curtain she had in the dining room of our house back in the 1960's, talk about taking recycling to the max, and other items :0
hope honey, your genuine love/kindness towards your mom is awe inspiring. At times I feel bad because it seems it's hard for me to be as nice to mine as you are to yours... BUT...as you said, progression and actions are different to each loved one. My mom would drive you batty!! Doesn't matter what I start to do ... she's right behind me asking why she can't put her shoes on, or if her one shoe and one slipper is ok or her 12 layers of clothing is going to be warm enough (97 today) or where the bathroom is or what is she supposed to be doing or where should I sit ( that one is asked 100's of times a day) All the above starts as soon as she walks out of her bedroom. It's a constant barrage of questions. She eats faster than I do, so for the next 15 minutes I have to hear she's done eating and what should be done with the plate. Of course I do answer her, but she forgets... so again and again.... there is never a moment of simply sitting without her wanting to be entertained in some way. My cheeks are bloody from biting them. Too me, this is the hardest part. Keeping her busy enough so I can get my own chores done. Sigh. I think I need a brown paper bad to hyperventilate with hope22. It's only 11:00 A.M. ... what a long day ahead.
I'm all for folks being successful...I wish them great success but to whom much is given much is expected and sometimes I think folks forget that part of it...don't know what got me on that rant...just feeling so free.....this time next week, that place will be but a memory and a wisp in the wind....forever free ..the happy things forever set free and the pain and heartache that it became will be over...and buried.....
Hope I'd adopt you in a heartbeart wonderful daughter that you are.
Hugs to you both
id give my aunt my warmest shirt and freeze my ass off . shed give me her last vittle and starve to death .. read it and squirm church fanatics ..
I am 100% with you on the money thing. I do know that you need to pay bills and such, but the love of money can cause more trouble in this world than anything else. While my brother was visiting he once again brought up the house, how maybe it would sell (hasn't in almost three years so not holding breath on that one) but it is almost funny to me now that "I" am the one who is losing the house...why is it bothering him so much????? hymmmmmm......there you go cap.....
I think people think I am lying when I say how much I hate focusing on money...that has probably been my biggest downfall in the eyes of "normal" society folk....I don't label success by my bank account balance and that doesn't seem to fly in my circle...so I am not in that circle or any circle now. I kind of live in my own little world...and if someone needs me, I'll be there...but then I'm coming back to my little world....because I don't like all the clutter and drama that lives in the other one...I have always been kind of a loner and the past three years have shown me I am even more so than even I knew...but the way I am is also the reason I am here doing what I am doing, so instead of folks being so critical, they need to just be glad I am the way I am...I'll figure it out as i go along.....I ask nothing of anyone...but I'm here if they need me.,,,unless they have proven to be a selfish "a"...then I may be there depending on who else may be involved or in need......why is it that seemingly knowing what you want and need out of life makes people avoid you like the plague
mostly when my sons pizz me off .
hymmmmn,
hymmmmn,
F - hymmmn .
lol
BUT i have a 4th load of firewood .. always with the looking ahead ..