Tag: mom

• “Bootiful” and a “looker”…

  

  A few weeks ago, I wrote about boots — shallow topic, I know — but it got me thinking about something deeper. Since I had mentioned my friend Kathy in the post, I thought it only right to share the link to the post with her (and hope she wasn’t offended by my references to her summer […]

  Sara

  January 7, 2015

  aging parents, character, Christian life, dementia, family, Humor, inspiration, life

  Alzheimer’s disease, boots, driving without awareness, Lamentations 3:22-23, love, mercy, mom, new every morning

• An afghan as a symbol of regret…

  

  My husband noticed something was wrong. At first I hesitated. Then I told him, “No, it’s stupid.” “I can tell something is wrong, what is it?” “You’re going to think this is stupid. Actually, it is  stupid. Ridiculous… [long pause] “… Last night, I dreamed of an afghan.” Lest he think I meant an Afghan […]

  Sara

  May 10, 2014

  aging parents, character, Christian life, dementia, family, life, memories

  afghan, Alzheimer’s disease, featured, longform, memories, mom, mother, Mother’s Day, wplongform

• At a loss for words…

  When my mother was first diagnosed with dementia, she had word-finding and organizational issues; now she has people-placing and event-remembering ones. I spent a mere 20 minutes Sunday talking to my mother before she was called, early, to dinner at the memory-care facility where she lives. The first ten minutes of conversation were so muddied, […]

  Sara

  November 18, 2013

  aging parents, Christian life, dementia, family, life

  conversation, memory care facility, memory loss, mom, NaBloPoMo