The Rose of the Wind

It’s happened. Sort of. Kind of. Not really, to be honest, which is why I haven’t been able to blog in so long. Mom was scheduled to move...

Operation Place K is moving along. I had a brief but intense freak-out on Monday when I called mom’s doctors to make sure they were...

Okay, I did it. After my last blog post, I called and set up an appointment for a nurse from Place K to come and evaluate mom for memory...

Facebook saw fit to remind me the other day that it had been a year since I started blogging! How is it that time can seem to fly by, and...

Place K was as nice as I remember it being; very clean and neat, with pleasant staff who interact well with the residents. The lobby’s...

Not much to report this go-round. Group home visit cancelled; mom’s sitter was sick again, poor thing. So it’s been another week with...

Mom’s slept pretty well the past few nights. The only problem with that is increased wrangling during the day, which makes it darn near...

The past week has flown by, even though some parts of it felt like they were years long. First assisted living visit was last Wednesday....

Among science fiction fans, there’s a thing known as the con crud. Invariably when you go to a sci-fi convention, somebody there has some...

Saturday was a day to be thankful for all around! The caregiver showed up early, for starters. Her name is Valerie and she is as sweet as...

Birthdays! The older we get, the less we want to deal with them, it seems. At least some folks are that way. Me, I try to be thankful I...

Quick update on life at the Ivy-encrusted Cottage. 😊 When we last left our intrepid heroes, the first visit of the sitter was scheduled...

I’m very excited and very nervous. On Monday a lovely lady named Tara came from WholeCare to evaluate mom. She spent a good couple of...

So. Christmas was… better than I hoped, not especially good, but not as bad as it could have been. How’s that for damning with faint...

It seems like so much of Christmas, at least in our culture, is composed of memories. I'm guessing folks who celebrate other holidays,...

I knew it was going to happen sometime, and this past week it finally did. Mom eloped. I’m using the word in the sense we use it in...

Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Americans! And a good Thursday to the rest of the world. I was going to write about my gratitude jar, it...

Mom had a horrible night last night. She read her pill schedule over and over for 2 hours and kept asking the same questions. I can...

This morning I put a roast in the crock pot. Mom never used a crock pot when I was growing up; she cooked a roast the old-fashioned way,...

I’m rather disappointed in myself. Mom had an excellent part-of-the-day yesterday. She woke me bringing me a drink of water, took herself...