Last night we were suppose to go out to eat with my parents for Timmy's birthday....Timmy is not really into eating out! So we made dinner here complete with the sweets that Mom is not suppose to eat and had a merry time playing cards....OH MY...it is a treat!
Daddy shared the fact that he told Mom to quit telling her children that she could not remember anything anymore.....his reasoning....they will put you in a home! He was only half kidding. We, all of us siblings, are becoming the parents and it scares him to death. He needed to let me know that taking away his ability to do things around his home and in his life is scary to him even if it done in total love...just like his siblings did with his parents. For the hundredth time he told me of his father who when they sold his farm, moved him to the city and got rid of his car and the last of his independence soon gave up on this earthly adventure and resorted to cutting the grass with a pocket knife.
Daddy made it clear that he was a lot like his father...it is up to us to tread lightly on his dignity.
I shared with them that it must suck to get old...to which we all had a really good laugh in agreement ( I am not far behind them).
