Had a great weekend with Adam and Annie... one that truly drove home the importance of family. In the end, it really is all we have. Lots of good time with Mom, I think we're much better at keeping her laughing when we're all together. Annie really has a gift for impersonating ("indoginating"?) the doggies and what their voices would sound like. She truly channels the dogs and what they might be thinking and saying.... it's an absolute riot. Mom really gets a kick out of it. We've continued to go for a walk outside every day which she has definitely come to look forward to. Yesterday, we even made an attempt at a family outing. We talked to Mom about maybe doing something like this every weekend when Adam and Phil can both be around for the heavy lifting... she's all for it! We piled her in the car, almost having to pack up like you do with a newborn, kind of ready for anything and bringing everything you might possibly need for comfort... and drove out west into Chester/Long Valley. There's a great farm out there where we like to take our kids sometimes... it's a farmstand with a few fields of live animals; goats, sheep, horses, chickens, rabbits and pigs. We bought a few bags of carrots in the stand and fed the animals. It would have been a great time, Mom would probably have loved sitting and watching the animals for a while, but it was too flippin' cold! It was a very windy, cold, brisk day and we don't want to chance any illness! She absolutely liked being out and had some good laughs in the car... just being in the middle of everybody was always fun for her... especially Adam and Phil who tend to just feed off of each other in a very funny way! It was just a good reminder that even though we're all bracing ourselves for the worst which has yet to come, Mom is still very much alive and living and wanting to be out... she does not want to be sitting here, day in and day out. We talked about next weekend maybe taking a road trip down toward Adam's house... to Point Pleasant to visit Jenkinson's Aquarium (Mom is a huge fan of the aquarium) and then maybe taking a dip in his hot tub. She liked this idea... it's a bit of a long car ride and it IS November... so we'll just see what happens. But the exerience has certainly helped us to be clearer about our intentions at this moment in time.
Adam is going to start coming on Wednesdays as well on as on the weekends so Mom can get a proper shower in the middle of the week. Chloe is getting along with her injured leg. Doggies are settling in OK... we take turns walking them with us. Daisy comes one day and then the chows come the next (although Daisy pretty much gets to come even when the chows come... just cause she's so easy and walks off the leash... so I guess what I mean to say is that every other day the chows get to come... I can't help it! They're such high maintenance!) Thank you all for your comments and emails. I read every word and appreciate your support more than you can know. Please pull out your old photos. The photo at top of page is Mom holding baby Adam.... probably his first summer, so 1971. The always was a stylin' beach babe!
Adam is going to start coming on Wednesdays as well on as on the weekends so Mom can get a proper shower in the middle of the week. Chloe is getting along with her injured leg. Doggies are settling in OK... we take turns walking them with us. Daisy comes one day and then the chows come the next (although Daisy pretty much gets to come even when the chows come... just cause she's so easy and walks off the leash... so I guess what I mean to say is that every other day the chows get to come... I can't help it! They're such high maintenance!) Thank you all for your comments and emails. I read every word and appreciate your support more than you can know. Please pull out your old photos. The photo at top of page is Mom holding baby Adam.... probably his first summer, so 1971. The always was a stylin' beach babe!
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