Catching my mom 🤨😄

Happy Mother’s Day again to all… I haven’t talked to my own mother yet – I have to catch her 🤨 lol

She is in a memory care facility that is closed to outside. Is assisted living.

She has her own little apartment, and about 3 or 4 really close girlfriends she has connected with. ❤️

She has a walker… she fell recently… so now she has a walker all the time

They also never run out of conversation lol… is new every time lol … the same stories are repeated several times lol

She’s oblivious to what’s going on … she just forgets … I’m almost a little jealous. How lucky to not fear, I’m glad she doesn’t realize.

Anyway… like I said… I gotta catch her 🤨

She waddles all over the place with her friends, has no cell phone, only her little apartment phone 🤨 so if she’s out – you can’t get her 🤨

I tease her about that all the time… Oh my god! How I not be able to reach you??? She giggles and teases back, what am I supposed to do? …stay in my apartment? 🤨😄 she is happy ❤️

I will catch her at some point

It’s funny… when they were my parents … they were so umm?? straight-lined? Traditional, reserved… one was dorky the other was a nerd lol

Then my dad retired 🤨… suddenly they were like 2 unsupervised teenagers 🤨😄 what the hell? Who took my parents? Who are you imposters?? 😄😄❤️

They had an amazing 4 years before my dad passed. Went crazy traveling to anywhere they desired and did alot of their bucket list stuff.

When he died we learned she had Alzheimer’s … they hid it from us 🤨

They were traditional… and my dad went through cancer for over 20 years before he beat it. My mother stood by his side completely through everything – literally. Just as he took care of and provided for her, she did for him as well.

My mom was always… joking laughing … loving … kinda goofy… maybe flaky sometimes lol ❤️ so that was always normal. (She was like an older model of me 😳)

Sometimes she would be saying something and forget, and my dad would jump in convo and finish for her … but they always did that.

Neither family or friends noticed, until my dad passed – and then my mom was front and center. 😮 Then it was all bad! Without my dad, yeah it was bad.

We believe they hid from everyone because they didn’t want to be taken apart? ☹️

My dads death was really traumatic for her… she lost her everything. It crushed her 😢

So anyway… we stepped in, had her see a doctor, and then we took control. She could no longer be alone.

We found a really nice place for her and she is happy ❤️

In her mind, she lives in Pleasantville

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She is/was an incredible mother… I think I had the best? Lol ✌️❤️

When I am able to catch her 🤨 … we reminisce a lot … those convos are hilarious and she remembers. Those conversations are awesome.

She will have moments of zoning out ?? Or make statements like my dad is still alive… those are hard.

But she’s still hilarious, remembers memories ❤️

I still have her ❤️ I can still say I love you and hear her say it back!!

Here is something funny… I have a sister – we sound the same on the phone … you can not tell us apart over the phone… so my mom always used to get us mixed up…

She no longer mixes us up… she knows the voices now – odd little Alzheimer’s thing lol

She is/was a really great mom ❤️ I wish I could keep her forever

Anyway… my boys are coming over today just to be with us ❤️ yay!! ❤️❤️❤️

Having a nice Mother’s Day so far ❤️ just have to catch my own mom 🤨😄 ❤️✌️