Posted in doing something creative, tagged week in the life on April 26, 2010| 3 Comments »
What a fun week! I got much more comfortable with pulling my camera out in odd places and even used my self timer to get some shots. I used a small moleskine for daily reflections and To-Do lists so I have notes. Now I will need to find some time to print photos and make my pages. Can’t wait to see how Ali’s book comes together.
Posted in alzheimer's, tagged daughters, week in the life on April 21, 2010| 1 Comment »
I am not taking the number of photos that many of the participants have recorded – in fact I don’t have one of me yet. But I am trying to think from a backwards perspective – what kinds of things would I want my daughters to know about my day-to-day life – the getting up, making breakfast, and living my life sort of things. I think about this a lot these days. Mom’s Alzheimer’s is beginning to be more obvious. The forgetting leaves her unable to carry on a conversation for long. It is really hard on the telephone where I can’t use visual cues to help her out. There are so many questions I would like to ask but the frustration of not being able to retrieve the memories keeps me silent. I am hoping that this story of a simple week in my life might offer up some of those snippets for my daughters.
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
| 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | |
lining up my words 