Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Tonight's picture was taken in July of 2003. This was one of Mattie's first kiddie pools on our deck. He loved it and he especially liked it when Peter went in the water with him. Peter was a good sport and he always made the time to do activities with Mattie. 

Quote of the day: You can’t explain what it’s like to mourn someone who is still alive unless you’ve experienced it firsthand. ~ Jessica Seay-Soto

What's with the missing watch? Well I spent 60 minutes or MORE this morning trying to find my mom's misplaced wristwatch. Mind you I just finished getting my dad ready, he had breakfast and he was out the door to his memory care center. This in theory should be my four hours to get things done. FORGET it. This has become the time I need to focus on my mom and trust me she needs a ton of support. Yesterday's saga was resolving credit card issues and today's was the missing watch. I literally looked everywhere in the house for the watch. I finally gave up. I then took her out to Nordstrom Rack to shop and while in the store, she reached into her pants pocket. Out came the wristwatch. I was truly besides myself! As I don't know how you can have this in your pocket and NOT feel it. It is not just my mom's forgetfulness that is an issue. She manufacturers crises and then expects us to believe what she is saying! For example, several weeks ago she insisted there was an election primary and she HAD to go and vote. I received nothing in the mail about this election and could find nothing on-line about our district. Yet she insisted I was wrong and that she got communication in the mail. Finally I asked to see what she got in the mail, and indeed the communication had NOTHING to do with an election. This is just one of many, many examples. It is emotionally taxing and very, very time consuming. 

I received this photo from the National Institutes of Health today. I purchased around $1,400 worth of items to stock our snack and item cart at the clinical center. Hard to believe that only 7 boxes could have contents that are worth so much! 

Meanwhile my birthday pile is growing at home. I truly appreciate these generous gifts that will stock our carts!

Though Miss Indie is Peter's cat in all intensive purposes, she does occasionally enjoy my company and every night, she escorts me upstairs to bed. She sits on my side of the bed and then expects a greeting and pets!