WOMEN AGES 50+ FOR DECEMBER 2023

(((Annie))) It’s good that your aunt is close enough to help. Just take it one day at a time.

Pip: You are a valued and lived member if our family. And we need that boot 😝

Still catching up 😝

Pg 11

🤗🤗🤗 and 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 for those who need them.

🙋‍♀️ Miele failte to the newbies.

☘️ Terri

exermom wrote: »

I may be wrong, but at work Jerry seems to be more and more nicer to me. Not sure what that’s all about. But he does still give me the rolling eyes when I ask him to do something (like get the lettuce or the pickles). He did mention to me that his sister (who is evidently his guardian. I didn’t think an adult could have a guardian, just have POA but I guess I was wrong) wants to put him in a group home and he doesn’t want to go. If he does, he’ll commit suicide. I think it may be a miscommunication. His sister may have said “maybe you should go to the group home and he interpreted it as she is going to. Whatever…..

Michele NC

Of course an adult can have a guardian if the adult is incapable of making life decisions.

In 2018, I became my husband's guardian and administrator and remained in that role for at least a year. It was some work to obtain that role, and a lot of work in the role. I was very happy when I no longer needed to do that.

Guardianship and Administration has undergone some changes since 2018 here in Tasmania, but the idea is basically the same.

https://www.tascat.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/684125/6.-Guardianship.pdf
A Guardian appointed with the relevant powers by the Tribunal can make decisions about non-financial matters, such as where a person with a disability lives, temporarily or permanently, or what health care and support services the person with a disability will receive.
An Order appointing a Guardian will indicate their powers. A Guardian cannot make decisions about the finances or estate of a person with a disability. That is the role of an administrator.

https://www.tascat.tas.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/636997/Administration.pdf
An administrator is a person or agency who has been appointed by the Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Guardianship Stream with legal authority to manage the estate or make financial decisions on behalf of an adult who lacks capacity to make such decisions because of a disability.


The EPA - Enduring Power of Attorney is when someone appoints another to be an Administrator dealing with the financial aspects.

The EG - Enduring Guardianship is when someone appoints another to be a Guardian dealing with living arrangements, health care etc.

Someone could appoint the same person for both, or different people.


Of course, YMMV depending on where you live.


M in Oz

Betsy in wet NW WA

Good morning ladies,

Gina - what a beautiful Christmas village. Thank you for sharing that photo of it. Sounds like yummy appetizers at the church. I would have done a lot of sampling myself!

Tracey - beautiful tree.

Annie - glad the hospice nurse is coming tomorrow and can add good guidance regarding your dad and that chair lift. Hope you can get some horsebacking riding in or at least get in some type of break without too much worry about leaving them alone. You are caught in the middle of a stressful situation. Sending you much strength and again, big ((((HUGS))).

Lisa - interesting story about Kels finding her bio dad and relatives. My DB's adopted daughter did the geneology search and found her bio dad, who lived the next town over and was totally unaware of her birth. He was shocked but was happy - she's his only child.

Heather - has your DH's daughter tried talking to him about a medical POA? I wonder you could use his photograph to bypass the facial recognition on his computer if necessary. I bet a techhie could figure how to get around it and those passwords if needed. I think my DH used to somehow go into the registry and get into computers when he worked in IT at the college, but that was a while ago. They might be harder to crack these days.

Sue - the Cowlitz river south of me had moderate flooding, over Hwy 12 in some areas. It crested yesterday and the roads should be clearing quickly. I sure hope that's the end of the "atmospheric river" aka "pineapple express" situation for this season.

I need to get after Christmas cards. When I find nice ones, I tend to buy several boxes of different ones at a time and actually make a note of which ones I sent out each year so there aren't repeats of the same one the following year. Probably shouldn't worry about it, lol. I am ending up with a lot of older unused cards and think I'll drop them off at a nursing home or assisted living place so the residents will have some to give out. If they don't want them I'll run them over to the "free" box outside my dog groomer's. I have more of DH's clothing to drop off anyhow.

For the first time in a long time, I didn't sleep well last night. Problem solving the chicken run situation and reviewing my nephew's situation kept going through my mind.

Hopefully the rain has let up enough that I can get the hen's soggy run under control before the next big rain moves in this weekend. Pretty sure I can. I might need to redo the tarp roof - sunshine is predicted tomorrow, so it might be the best day to remove the old roof, let the sun evaporate that water, then attach a new one later in the afternoon. I'm supposed to join former co-workers for lunch tomorrow, I'm lukewarm about it (lots of times the people I want to see don't show up anyhow) so may just stick around home and get this job done.

Nephew stuff - thank you all for the prayers and good thoughts going to my sis and her family. Nephew is facing a lot of challenges.

Make it a good day, ladies.

Lanette
SW WA State

Lanette Hugs for your family. So Sad. Christmas season is so hard mentally!

Morning dear friends
Im staying in today mostly because they are working on the hallway here and I dont want to get in the middle of them laying carpet.

Snowflake1968 wrote: »

Machka - I don’t know if I could convince DH to go out, but I like the idea. Of course, this year he will be sleeping most of the day anyway.

Heather - I’ve seen those books I think they are a brilliant idea.
Your outfit sounds lovely.
I too would like to have dinnerware like yours, unfortunately I have to allow DH to have some things. 😂

Lanette - your ladies are very fortunate that they are in your care.
How tragic for your sister’s family.

Lisa - It sounds like Kelsey will have some people to meet when she returns from Hawaii. I imagine that there are a few stories like that that come out of DNA tests.

Allie - I love the table, what a great keepsake to have.

Beth - it sounds like just getting away without the purchases was nice for you and DH.

My MFP date was Feb 12, 2012 - in all honesty though I didn’t actually use it for a couple or three years if not more in there. I currently have a 5.84 year streak though.

Rebecca - I have family history on all sides except my paternal grandmother’s going back centuries. I need to spend some time going through it and organizing it.
My Dad’s father’s side i know goes back to 1600’s England. I’m 1995 my cousin and I wrote a book on the history following the direct line to us.

Joy - it’s not often you get service like that! It’s great the delivery went smooth.

Pip - what a great picture of Yogi, I bet Kirby will love the calendar.

Lanette - I’ve been trying to convince DH to go back to the gym since he won’t go on antidepressants. I think it would help a lot.

Allie - my Dad never did a POA but he did a will and they named my brother POA for my Mom for when she needed it about 7 days before he died.
My grandparents never had one.
In Canada it is usually the wife or child that makes decisions. It works well as long as the kids get along. My FIL did not have one and my SIL feels that her mother didn’t make the proper decisions for DH’s dad. It’s caused some hard feelings since he never let his wishes be known.

Rebecca - I chuckled at your comment to Debbie about the tree being decorated to her liking. Last year and this year Michaela and Kaitlyn decorated my tree. This year Kaitlyn mostly handed ornaments to Michaela and Michaela placed them. The top of my tree is a little bare.



Michele - love your turtle.

I went to ceramics tonight. I wanted to get a start on my son in law’s gift. Tomorrow is my regular night. I should be able to get it done by next weeks last night of classes until January.



Tomorrow afternoon we are going to Kaitlyn’s, she is going to cut DH’s hair for him.

Tracey in Edmonton

Awe, beautiful tree!!!!
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa

Machka9 wrote: »

I decided to write a Christmas letter this year to include all the exciting things that have happened. It has been a very long time since I've written one!!

Let me know what you think ... is there anything I should add or leave out?? Do you think it is about the right length?

Machka in Oz

That Christmas letter....priceless! I took a screenshot and am sharing it on my Facebook page.💖🤗
Its perfect!😂
Rebecca
Whidbey
Wa