Supporting all who care for elders
I’m planning a wedding for this fall. Yes, my own. (Insert wild applause here.) Amidst the joy (this man is the one I prayed for) the fun (getting in touch with my crafty side) the work (sewing four flower girls’ dresses) and the angst (will my “country-chic” wedding look like a kindergartener put it together?) […]
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Just because “receiving gifts” is last on my list of love languages doesn’t mean I don’t like them! More than any other love language, this illustrates how they mesh together and depend on each other. If your main gift is quality time, a gift has more meaning when time and thought went into
The Love Language of “Receiving Gifts” Makes a Gift More Than a Gift Read More »
We came together to celebrate my Dad’s birthday and to spend a few precious moments before my parents went to visit my sister and her family out west for a few weeks. My husband and I, my parents and my two little girls visited over a meal, and of course, cake. I
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My mom loved to play games in an evening with guests and the family. Normally serious and strict, she morphed into a silly kid who could act a charade with the best of them. When Alzheimer’s crept through her brain, this didn’t change. She still loved to play, but her ability to participate waned every
Loving Advice to All Caregivers Everywhere: Don’t Miss the Party! Read More »
The unused patio looked a little pathetic. A long, rectangular space, no one enjoyed it because the planters were full of weeds, needed to be repositioned and you could only sit if you had a wheelchair or carried a kitchen chair out. The door was narrow and the lip at the bottom made it a
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“They cancelled Hallowe’en? How can they cancel Hallowe’en?” That was the cry last year as we saw event after event cancelled. Because Hallowe’en occurred outside, we held faint hope that perhaps it could still happen, but eventually the word came from above that it, too, was cancelled. Little did we know how many other events
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I am so thankful for the many elders who added to my life.
Three elders who helped complete the puzzle of my life Read More »
When dementia makes the outcome of celebrations unsure, how do you cope?
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I love to beat the system. By that, I often mean spending far less (or nothing) on something that’s supposed to cost me a fortune. Two of the world’s cutest baby overalls, one for each new grandchild, fall into this category. The fabric was given to me by someone downsizing, and its primary colours of
How to Beat the System This Christmas and Choose Joy Read More »
Think back to other Christmas seasons. What part of the season bugged the heck out of you? And how many of those thorny issues don’t exist in 2020? Here are a few I thought of: Rushing around to malls to shop. No parking, no time. (I’ve done all of my shopping online, at my leisure,
Emerging From Pandemic Sorrow to a Creative Christmas Read More »