First, let me explain something, I am not staying away because I am not working on anything because I have been but I just do not have that much computer time anymore. My father, who has Alzheimer's disease has gotten so much worse in the last month that it is scary. I am now having to do the yard work and the house work, I have always done the housework and cooking or have for several years now, but never in my life have I done yard work. I always hated working outdoors, but am beginning to like it. I am also trying to help him with his garden, which he can't remember what he has planted, just Sunday he asked me if he picked up the potatoes that he dug. The potatoes were just planted about 3 weeks ago. We had planted cabbage that day. He told me yesterday that our address was what it was 34 years ago and today he called my dog, Sugar, by the name of my mother's dog that she had about 19 years ago. We still have not taken his keys, mainly because my sister's want me to do all the taking and telling and I refuse to do it alone. I live him with they just come visit every day two or three times for hours on end, let them be the ones that do it. I will back them but will not be the verbal one in this issue. They way we are waiting until he gets past these anniversaries of sorts that we have coming up. My mother will have been dead 2 years on Friday, then the next Thursday would have been her birthday and then Mother's day is less than two weeks from that, I think. He was big on Mother's day though so I understand them wanting to wait past that time. Anyway if he goes anywhere one of us tries to go with him. I have a sister that has been out on strike from her job, "she works in a hospital," for almost a month now and she has been going with him, mainly because she is the one that doesn't want him to do anything ever. After they go back to work, which I think will be the end of this week, I will be left alone, to do all the work, both inside and out and also go with him anywhere he wants to go. Quilting is once again going to have to be put on the back burner, for a while. Hopefully once I don't have to do both inside and outside work, this winter, I can get back to my Noah's Ark Panel and then on to other things.
I still have my squishies to mail out and am going to do so just as soon as I catch a free minute when the PO is open and I have someone around to stay with Dad.
I hope you all don't feel I wasted your time asking so many questions. I do so want to do this but things have just been so hard.
I have now had both my eye surgeries and for the first time in way over a year I am able to sit down and read a book without them bothering me too much. I am so thankful for that.
I just have to remember to tell myself that the Lord will not put more on a person than they can bear and have faith that all will work out. I will continue to read and post when I have but in the mean time please email me from time to time at either quilter at mountain-breeze dot com or learning at gmail dot com. I have missed you folks so much but my Dad has to come first.
Love to you all and good wishes, speedy recoveries and prayers to all that need them, please keep me in your's.
Jacqueline in KY Jacqueline in Kentucky, USA
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