Fresh corn

Mom loves the new collage. We hung it right by the dining room table. She has all of you smiling out at her all at the same time!!!

So, I don't know if any of you know that I am not a big fan of Scrabble - too much thinking involved. Mom has been trying to get me to play with her, and finally got me to cave yesterday. As the game proceeded she kept telling me that she had never seen a board like the one we were facing before - We just couldn't find a way to get words south of the center! Long story short - We were playing while waiting for supper to cook, ........................I WON!!! I beat Mom!!!! She,a s always was very good natured about it.

I still prefer Triominos, a new game for her, but one which she is really enjoying. It doesn't take as long as Scrabble, so it is more my style.

I got her some new playing cards, and we played a regular rummy last week, which she remembered that she knew how to play once we got going.

While eating a fresh veggie saute, Mom recalled having corn as a child. Her mother grew it on the farm, they had hired hands in to help with the harvest. She could recall the corn being taken to a place where they would can it. Her fondest memory was of the pan of water her mother would get started on the stove, so that she could gather a bunch of cobs before they were taken to the cannery and then how great it tasted fresh off the stalks! She has been enjoying having a variety of fresh vegetables this summer from our garden.

She always mentions that she remembers the cherry tomatoes Nancy brought her. They were delicious and tasted different from the ones I have been growing. She didn't realize that there were different varieties for cherry tomatoes these days.

Mom is really looking forward to Nancy and Gordene coming today and preparing a meal. We left the Scrabble in its place of prominence on the table, so that it will be ready for her to do battle with them today!

I have left a journal on the table. I am working on it slowly to add in as much as I am able to .
After Stephen visited her last month she had asked me what he was studying. I told her film, and then she also remembered it. She asked me to write it down so that she could remember it. It gave me the idea that it would be helpful and fun for her, for her to be able to have her visits written down to be able to review them and remember all her visitors and the fun they have had.

In true Nangeroni spirit I started to date the pages of the visits she has been having recently, with who came, planning to get some info to get them filled in as I am able. I was thinking that it should be a chronological thing. Then it dawned on me that she can't remember what day it is, let alone the sequence of days, so the order of entries does not matter. As you visit Mom, if you feel inclined to write down anything of interest to her, prior visits, any memories, etc you want to share with her, please feel free to use it. I don't intend it to be a book of my writings.

I'm just planning on keeping it lighthearted. She is already enjoying it and thought it was a great idea. Mind you, she keeps reminding me that no all my ideas are great, like having to use soap to wash the dishes, having to give up her favorite coffee cup that has decades of filth in the bottom, which I can't reach as it is too small for my hand to get in to, getting a housekeeper in , eating enough protein, drinking enough water, etc, etc. etc!

But the collage and the journal she really likes.

If any of you are concerned about how i am caring for Mom just ask her - She will be honest and blunt about it. Oh, if any of you have complaints about anything I am dong with Mom, please feel free to take over for me!!!

Enough said.