November 19,2009

Wow! It's been a week since I looked at this. Mom is doing well these days. She is keeping busy with coffee every morning, getting her hair done, chorus and mass once a week, and has gotten involved in a couple of committees. Her spirits have been pretty good and she is very happy to have settled her thanksgiving plans. Mary and Ray are having dinner with her at the restaurant at Fuller Place. Her friend Anna will also be joining them. Mom was invited to both Peter's and my house, but she really wanted to spend the time with Mary and Ray.

Mom now has a new mesh office chair for her computer. She spends a lot of time playing Mahhjong, and was complaining about back pain once too often to me. I found her a great deal on one which she just loves.

Of course it took me a few weeks to even have her let me go look at them and then decided she could make do with what she had. When I brought the chair up she looked at it and immediately didn't like the way it looked so I proceeded to just lounge in it for a while enjoying it so much!! I didn't even ask her to try it, but soon I found her sitting in it while I was busy with something else.

She wouldn't get up for me to put it in her room as she was enjoying it so much. It is a special back support model, so she no longer needs to have a pillow in the chair with her.

John and Mia went with me over the weekend to play some games with her. She and Mia got into a few games of Triominos while John and I did some work around the place. We installed a slide out waste basket for under the sink so she no longer has to hold the basket to get it out. She will not even have to lift it as she can just take the bags right out of it very easily.

Then all 3 of us played Scrabble. Would you believe that John won??!!