WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR OCTOBER 2020

Heather: I respect your feelings about the holidays this year. I do not expect to see any of my children or grandchildren until sometime in 2021, and that is hard to live with. We will have facetime visits. DH is at risk of getting any contagious disease that is airborne so he’s mostly at home and I am the errand woman. He sent me to the store for some items to keep door handles from making divots into walls. I bought two additional kits and I think that combination will save the walls from 99% of damage from door handles. :bigsmile:

Counting Some Blessings:

The weather is beautiful.

We are able to have regular contact with our adult children who live far away via phone or zoom.

I managed to clean out a glass fronted cabinet in the living room. It was loaded with inexpensive drinking glasses that we bought in the 1970’s when our kids were still in elementary school. They’ll be going to the Senior Center Thrift Store. Someone will put them to good use. I found it to be is amazing and cathartic accomplishment. Sometimes the “little things” build up and need to be purged. I feel great.

Katla in beautiful NW Oregon

Katla - I saw Mars the other night, I had never seen it before.
Our bedroom is grey with one red wall, that same grey is in the living room. Our hallway and one wall in the dining area is a cream colour and the other walls in the kitchen and dining area is a sage green colour. The bathroom is a pale yellow with grey flooring.
I am tired of the green in the kitchen and grey in the living room and have been thinking of changing it out.

Heather - my mind went to the gutter when you talked about Johnny’s little presents in bed on his birthday. I blame my cousin’s husband who is always trying to convince her it’s his birthday for some extra attention. 😂

Christmas - as long as our rules don’t change our plan is to have Christmas at our youngest daughter’s new house. She has grand plans to go skating on the lake and have hot chocolate and roasted marshmallows around her campfire afterward. They will also make dinner. This won’t happen on actual Christmas Day as my SIL usually works Christmas. On Christmas Day she will probably come visit with us.

I actually bought a Christmas gift tonight for our eldest daughter. She is a Dr. Who fan and they had a paper doll book with all of the doctors and their outfits with some history written through the book. She probably will never use the paper dolls, but she’ll enjoy the writing.

Restrictions- we are limited to up to 4 cohorts that we can interact with without following the 6ft rule and masks. We are allowed 15 people inside. Our daughters and their families are our cohorts and my work is a cohort, so I have one space open but haven’t offered it to anyone. I work in LTC and am very careful. My grandchildren are not in school or activities of any kind.

Michele - my Mom’s nursing home closed due to a flu going around last Jan/Feb.

Rebecca - you never know how Athena will react later in life. Children get older and make their own decisions about who they love. I truly believe how we talk to them and treat them no matter how much time is spent with them. Don’t count yourself out yet as being a favourite.

Had a rough day at work, I wish the families could be told exactly how selfish they are being by not following the rules when they visit their loved one. By not following the rules they risk not only their own loved one, but the other 99 residents in the facility and all of the staff. So many are taking masks off to kiss their loved one, or trying to feed the resident when they are supposed to stay 6 ft apart.

I have pictures of the new puppy my daughter and son in law are getting. I have asked permission to share as they didn’t get one of the puppy alone only with them. They have not chosen a name yet, but I’m sure they will when they can bring her home at the end of October.




Tracey in Edmonton