Kat51

DH cannot work any more - his health is too bad.  He also appears to be in the beginning stages of some sort of mental decline, which worries me greatly, but his doctor does not know the cause. ...

Two appointments for Dad today - one on my lunch hour at the funeral home to set up his burial trust and other at VA to see if he qualifies for benefits to help pay for his Memory Care.  Just before...

Stressful day.  I was supposed to meet the funeral home director to set up Dad's burial trust today at noon.  My phone at work rang at 10:30 and it was the director of the memory care facility...

I was SO looking forward to going camping this weekend.  Sunday is my birthday and getting away for the weekend was going to be a wonderful gift.  Our oldest daughter and her family were coming...

Dad kept begging me to take him home today, so that was difficult enough.  But then, for the first time, he asked if I'd seen my mother.  She died more than 3 years ago.  What made that more...

Been a rough few weeks. Dad has had some memory issues for the past year or so. But, he went with us to every one of Tyler's football games, including the State Championship at Camp Randall; and to...

Long time since I posted here.  Daughter changed her mind is stayed in the mid-west.  Things seem to be going alright that way.  GS is in AAU basketball and in track, so busy running all over the...

My daughter, grandson's mom, is moving a much longer distance away.  I'm not sure how this will work out.  Not crazy about the idea of driving two 230 mile round trips to drop him off and pick him...

GS received a Citizenship/Leader award yesterday from a civic group.  All of his teachers nominated him for the award, his principal was at the banquet and gave a wonderful speech about why he...

DH cannot work any more - his health is too bad.  He also appears to be in the beginning stages of some sort of mental decline, which worries me greatly, but his doctor does not know the cause. ...

It's been very busy at work and I've been on mandatory overtime for a few weeks.  I think I'll get a bit of a break now, but then January & February will be very busy - year end in an accounting...

Long time since I wrote.  Things going alright.  Granddaughter is playing soccer and it's so much fun to watch.  She is in kKndergarten and lives with her parents in a smaller town a few miles...

Wow - maybe his mother might be getting a clue about how expensive things are.  He stayed with her for one week, and she commented to me how much he eats.  He's training for sports - running 3...

We had a great weekend.  It was granddaughter's birthday on Saturday and we went to a waterpark hotel.  It has 6 outdoor and 4 indoor waterparks with 3 wave pools, tons of water slides, a couple of...

Bad news today.  My son-in-law's dad is in congestive heart failure and they admitted him to the hospital.  They are still running lots of tests so we won't know if there is anything they can do to...