This evening as we were watching TV, Mom asked me to help her remember a few things. The things she wanted to remember were the names of my children and their children.
I can't begin to tell you how sad that made me feel. I am the oldest girl in a family of six kids, and I was the first to start having children. Our oldest daughter, Deanna, is Mom's first grandchild and she was having a hard time remembering the names... Even as I said the names in order, several times, she was having a difficult time being able to repeat them.
What does this mean? I don't know. Maybe she was just having a "brain freeze" but I am afraid it really means that there will be more information disappearing from her memory as time goes on. So, I had a paper with the names of her kids and who they married, and the names of the kids they had, etc. I had written it up and sent it to a nephew whom I hadn't had much contact with and I wanted him to know who his family was. Anyway, I updated that paper and changed the font to be really big letters (Mom is more blind than she will admit) so she could read it and I gave it to her so she can look at it whenever she wanted. She liked the idea. Maybe I will give her a binder to keep her current information close at hand.
I want to share these thoughts with family members, so I will be sending out emails to the names I have email addresses. There is a link to my blog, and they can become followers. I pray they will want to be included to stay up with Mom's (Grandma's, GG's) living. If you get an email, you can forward it to the family members I might not have emails for, so they can visit the site and stay up to date with family news.
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