• Aging Parents,  Surprises

    A Couple of Surprises – followed by Pizza and Busy Week

    A Couple of Surprises Followed by Pizza Yesterday we had to get up around 5:30 so we could get Mom by 7:15 and get her to an appointment at Centennial (across Nashville in rush hour) by 9:00 a.m. We did it with a few minutes to spare! Mom’s surprised everyone with two things yesterday. 1) She told the nurse practitioner that her UTI was back and she’d had symptoms for a week and a half. 2) She asked for Christmas ornaments from her house. So number 1 is pending and number 2, quite frankly, is concerning. It’s making me think she is really losing her memory. When I told her…

  • Aging Parents,  Downsizing,  Home,  Moving

    We are DONE!

    Happiness comes sometimes when you reach the end of a long stretch of journey, when you can see the light at the end of the tunnel, when you know that God has answered the prayers, and been with you all along. We are DONE with this leg of the journey! You can watch it HERE.

  • Aging Parents,  Mom,  Moving,  Stress

    The AFTERMATH: Weeks after Moving Mom to Assisted Living

    Well, it’s been a couple weeks now since this move was complete, getting Mom to assisted living. In this video I discuss the AFTERMATH of the move, and how it is going with assisted living. Our lives have slowed down ZERO % as of this video. And we have a lot of unsettling things brewing at home on top of all else. You can watch the video HERE!