My Momma Yes today was our day out and we sure had a great day. It is a beautiful warm day today with lots of good ole sun shine and mom sure does not like the cold and I was praying for a pretty day and it was. After I arrived she got ready in her pretty new blue outfit and she was ready to go out. I told her she was exceptionally beautiful today and got to take a picture of her before we left. I even noticed that she was wearing her wedding rings that she had not worn for a long time since the death of my father at age 55 in 1993 many years has come and passed in her life- time some harder and more difficult than others not only did she bury her husband but a son at age 42 also in 2000 from a boating accident. She has fought to stay strong and independent and I am proud of her for that strength, she has done a great job of taking care of herself through it all.
We have come to notice her good days verses the more difficult ones so much easier now that we understand what is happening. Today was a more difficult day of walking and balance, even though we did not do lots of it today.
Our first stop was for some petrol and off to the city we went she has never seen Beth's house so off we went to go and take a look. She was happy to see the kids in a nice home with a nice neighbor hood, a mother is always a mother the surroundings are important for her to know her grandchild is in a safe place and doing well. Then we went to Jackson to see Ricky and say hi to him. We went to see if one of our family members new car lot was getting built. Then we drove to my home that she has seen from the outside but had never been inside and she was giddy to see such a nice big house and just happy about it. I was taken in by her looking through the house with me and she even had to go up stairs and her balance was not good and this was the first time we have experienced stairs together so I told her that her son in-law would put in an electric chair for the stairs, she laughed said yea that would be good.
Awe I am having such a wonderful time with my mom that I feel like I should pinch myself to see if I'm still alive. Wow this is awesome and my dad and Rick must be dancing in the heaven-lies about this wonderful place of being more at peace right now, she deserves to have this time. Sure she gets kicked up but now we can help her come down with love and understanding and patience. It is so good to finally know how to help her it is great for us we have talked about the change and how we are working so well with her we are just elated and excited we are getting to share and build new memories with our momma. I know she had a great day we stayed here at the house and waited to take Ricky out to eat with us and she had been gone a good six hours from her home but she had a wonderful day. We have recognized that we all can't go at the same time with her but we can each take a day and spend time and she enjoys it even more because the less stressful it is, makes such a remarkable difference for her and us. I feel that now that we know what we are dealing with, we can now help her through and us too. It just feels like a new beginning for us all.
I showed momma the blog today and some of the postings and ask her if she would mind if I posted her picture and she was so taken with the Internet today and what all someone could do and the fact we could make a site about our family and talk and share and she said it was ok to let me share her with you.
Momma, We Love You





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