I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
But I still want cake.
Hey, if you are over 100 and still thriving, great! But how often does that really happen?
Exactly! We would all like our parents back and to be well again.
My dad was ready to go when he died. He was tired of suffering.
Mom is ready to be with my father!
cwille,
Hahaha, about the 25 year old body back again!
Years ago I had one friend who had an overhaul on her body, all at once too. Lord knows what she spent on her boob lift, liposuction, botox, etc.
Another friend mentioned that she wanted a boob lift like our other friend. She did look great while ours sagged! LOL 😆
Anyway, she had an expensive cruise planned. Her husband told her that she had to pick one because they couldn’t afford both. She picked the cruise and said that she went out an bought a new uplifting bra! 😂 LOL
I really needed to hear comforting words right now.
I really try not to let small things get to me but sometimes I feel so exhausted from everything. I don’t want anything else on my plate.
I don’t blame you for getting annoyed at the mention of a 100th birthday. My word, your mom was 99 and they still didn’t let up, grrrrr!
I don’t know if it is normal but if I get really exasperated I feel queasy and completely lose my appetite. I force myself to cook for my husband or he will go pick something up just for him.
I like to cook but not when I am nauseous. I have always been this way. If I am overly tired or upset the first thing to go is my appetite.
And you'll get the comments from those who tell you how lucky you are to still have your mother (or father) and how they'd do anything to have theirs back. Well sure I'd like my parents back - as they were in their prime. And I'd like my 25 year old body back too.😏
What in the world is ‘wonderful’ about being 95, bed bound and in hospice?
Honestly, do these people even realize what they are saying to the child of a parent who has suffered for many years?
I doubt that they know what they are saying. It’s a case of, they don’t know what they don’t know. Even if they mean well, it’s annoying.
So, my solution is to not even respond. I truly don’t have the energy to ‘educate’ someone on the matter. Let them figure it out themselves or hear it from someone else.
At this point in time, I am tired of it all. I need to nourish my own needs. It’s not worth the effort because too many times people will only hear what they want to hear.
This is unusual for me. I once slept through a hurricane.
I hope that I will become sleepy enough to fall asleep soon.
Nite all.
😱
I broke out the expired Flonase, and that will cure my allergies after 3-4 doses, I am hoping. I hate to take it, but as a last resort, this one time only.
I colored it myself tonight and am feeling more myself.
Just grateful that I have any hair at all.
Having said that $300.00 dollars is highway robbery. 🙁
So glad when she retired 🙄.
I have had every shade of blond, every shade of red, brown, black and when I was a teenager I had rainbow colors before it was cool. I have also had highlights and lowlights. You name it and I had it. I even had part of my head shaved. My parents were so thrilled of my wacky hair colors, styles, with going to big to-dos parties or just going out in public. Back than people really didn't do the things they do today.
Send,
I am so not a good example. LOL! I am sure you are not ugly! You just don't feel like yourself because you haven't had your hair done. Get it Done!!!🙃
I think I had fun being a blond because I was a teenager. But I had more fun having long black hair with a blue tint to it! Talk about getting strange looks! LOL!!
And then the phone rang... Twice! And of coyrse I am home alone: husband took son to American football training. My son is a fan of NFL!
Maple, I had to laugh at your DH’s fixation with watches. My elderly neighbour’s husband went into a care home when his dementia got too much for her at home. Every time she visited he complained that his watch wasn’t working. We both had a good laugh about it. Why did he need a watch in his care home? There were clocks everywhere and it wasn’t as though he had a bus, plane or train to catch and couldn’t be late. Laughter was the best medicine for my neighbour in that case.
My dementia-suffering FIL got fixated about the house alarm. One day my DH visited to find him standing in the hall wearing just his underwear, with an electric drill in one hand and a pair of scissors in the other, planning to cut the alarm wires and drill the control box out of the wall! It was a crisis at the time and not long after that he went into a care home for his own and the rest of the family’s safety, but we can laugh about it now, and there’s no guilt in that. It’s just a way of coping with the situation!
My kids thought that I was boring with the same old hair color! LOL 😆
I don’t know how she did it but I swear she looked good no matter what color her hair was!