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The pondering Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: The biggest shop we ever did together. Too much to do a trolley check which made mum happy. She said I was allowed to drop the blue tokens on the donation bin at the end as a … Continue reading
Posted in dementia, looking after Mum, memory, stroke, Tuesday, Tuesday blanket
Tagged pondering, The Tuesday Blanket, woodenspoon
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The chaotic cooking Tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Mostly successful, although someone with a very full trolley beat us to the ‘nice’ cashier so we ended up with a man. Luckily Mum approved of him. Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: Belgium bun (did … Continue reading
Posted in crochet, dementia, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday, Tuesday blanket, Uncategorized
Tagged cooking with Mum, dementia, Sister 1, Sister 2, Tuesday, Tuesday blanket, wooden spoon
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The art of distraction tuesday
Tuesday stats: Tesco: Successful, no crying and we got the ‘nice’ cashier Celebratory ‘we did the shopping’ cake choice: cinnamon bun Cooked: Fish pie x 2 (one for dinner, one for the freezer) Kitchen music listened to: Simon and Garfunkel … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, dementia, family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged caring for parents, looking after Mum, The Tuesday Blanket, Tuesday
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The start of The Tuesday Blanket Tuesday
‘Hmmm. You’re rather twisted aren’t you?’ ‘I am?’ ‘You are.’ And that’s how the conversation started as I stepped into the room where I had an accidental massage this Tuesday. My sister (a beautician) was giving mum a facial at … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, crochet, family, looking after Mum, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Abba anchor, cooking with Mum, crochet, dementia, family, knitting, looking after Mum, massage, muddled life guide, The Tuesday Blanket, Tuesdays, wool
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Purple hat Tuesday
Mum was an amazing knitter. She’s made countless thing over the years and I never once heard her say a pattern looked too hard. She made matching cable knit dresses for me and my sisters only a few years ago … Continue reading
Posted in family, looking after Mum, memory, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Abba, cooking, elderly parents, knitting, matching with mum, purple hat, Tuesdays
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Woolgate Tuesday
I’ve been lucky: since the start of the year Mum has been in a good mood, or I’ve been able to manoeuvre her into one relatively quickly on my Tuesday visits. This week…well, things were not as good. We had … Continue reading
Posted in family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Aunt, cousin, dementia, knitting, looking after Mum, sisters, tough tuesday woolgate, Tuesdays
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The chicken worked (!) Tuesday
You might not believe this, but…we had a huge success on Tuesday this week. Whilst shuffling around Tesco, I did my chicken impression for Mum accompanied by the usual ‘what am I?’ question and Mum shouted (while laughing) ‘Chicken! Stop!’ … Continue reading
Posted in looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, Muddled Life Tip, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged chicken impression, dementia, doctors, replanting words, tapeworm, wooden spoon
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Double confusion Tuesday
What do you do when you are just getting the hang of managing your Mum that you (lovingly) describe as ‘mad as a box of frogs’ to anyone asking how she is? Well, you go to Tesco for a bit … Continue reading
Posted in family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged Aunt, caring for parents, cousin, dementia, good Tuesday, humour, knitting, Tuesdays
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Parental daftness Tuesday
Tuesday this week was a little different in that my parents seem to have taken over in the daftness stakes and these were things that needed to be addressed… Mum and I went to Tesco. Mum had a panic that … Continue reading
Posted in Bumpkinsville, family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged good Tuesday, mum, the long goodbye, tough days, Tuesdays
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Wooden Spoon Tuesday
It’s Tuesday. And my car didn’t even turn over when I tried to leave for Mum and Dads this morning when it was -5. Mr R did magic with jump leads though and luckily (for this set of circumstances) it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking, family, looking after Mum, memory, muddled life guide, stroke, Tuesday
Tagged caring for parents, humour, lasagne, little girl mum, wooden spoon
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