Sunday, March 6, 2011

An update of sorts

Since I last updated life has been a bit up and down. Nana got better. We celebrated Christmas, my grandparents celebrated their 50th wedding anniv, we celebrated my aunti's birthday, my grandpa's birthday and I got busy again with real estate- put buyers into contract, took some listings.

Nana has gotten worse. She was duing fantastic in January but then seemed to just not get any better. In fact, she got worse. She is pretty vacant these days, stares at the floor, drools at times. You can tell when she is with us, when she laughs at a joke I think I have my nanny back.

I am learning to enjoy the little momemts. Sundays are my nana days. I honestly don't know how much time I have left with her mentally she is slipping so fast. So on Sundays I go up and help her get dressed, curl her hair etc while papa goes into town- we go out to lunch etc.

We are learning to work about this- papa is...trying to work around it. I still don't think he realizes that we can still live our lives. We can travel etc. He keeps saying "this isn't how I envisioned us living out the last years of our lives". He is starting to use it as an excuse. We are trying to make him see this isn't the end of everything. That Nana will enjoy traveling. We just have to DO IT. He FINALLY got a homeaide to help a few nights a week. It has help take the pressure off him a lot.

I am going to be writing a lot more about my experiences with my nana and her little sayings and stories. She is still the funniest person I know. 

In other news!

Meggles Photography is official! http://www.megglesphotos.com/

The Winnie's got married!