Leonor showered mom with gifts and love.
An impressive collection of photos taken of Guy during the many hikes he takes with his friend Don
Christmas Eve I’m looking forward to the Christmas photos that will begin to show up on this page as we get closer to Christmas – hour by hour. Mom is feeling good and is downstairs having her hair done as I write this note. But wait – there will be more.
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Now it’s the day after Christmas and I find myself summing Christmas Day up in just one word — “Awkward” It seems like every year mom says “It just doesn’t seem like Christmas” and this year hearing her repeat that through out the day seemed all too accurate. There were some pleasant moments but most of the daily events felt like an endurance test. It’s not my intention to detail the highs and lows but just to acknowledge that we successfully passed through the hours. Fortunately Christmas Eve was a heartwarming time together and felt a lot more like Christmas.
The new arrangement is finally acceptable.
On Christmas morning I arrived to peacefully listen to nothing but complaints which actually continued most of the day. With in the first five minutes I was moving her bed and rearranging her entire room because of some “unknown heat” that seemed to be coming from the wall next to her bed and was making her sick. She insisted that this had nothing to do with her regular room heat which she keeps between 79 and 80 degrees – all year. I believed her because this was not the first time she had mentioned a problem with this “heat” Later in the morning the management arrived with an attachment for the heat vent that redirected the heat away from “the wall”. It seemed to work almost instantly – but later in the afternoon mom announced that she thought she liked her bed the way it was before. I managed to hold off any more room changes for a least a day just to see how the new arrangement would work if given a chance. The Joys of Christmas arrived a day late.
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