aging parents – God's Grace and Life's Challenges

“What do you do when you don’t know where your mama is?”

The other day Mom looked at me with a childlike gaze, and in honest concern asked, “What do you do

It finally came! My aunt had called me several weeks ago to check in about Mom. She’d mentioned that she’d

A couple weeks ago, Mama looked right at my oldest daughter and said, “I want to buy you a duck.”

A substitute hospice nurse came today, and shared some wisdom that I am pondering. She was kind and wonderful, as

Sometimes life is heavy. And though I cherish time with my Mama, I wonder if I’m really doing what God

Whenever I smell lilacs I think of Mama. Mom and Dad planted a whole big border of them in the

A couple years ago I had a day of lessons in aging… Mom asked me twice how old I was.

The hospice workers are pretty amazing. Such compassionate, gifted people. Today Mama had her hair shampooed and nails filed, by

Mama doesn’t say much that makes sense anymore. So any words she says that are coherent stand out more. Yesterday,

I’m so emotional today. Things are changing more with Mama and I’m not ready to even write about it all