Lights

My daughter made me this awesome shawl. It's almost big enough to be a throw and I've used it as a throw. It's a gorgeous deep blue variegating into light blue (or gray, can't tell). It's warm and soft and brings me such comfort. Thanks daughter.

Christmas is done, New Year's is done, and we all return to those everyday dull routines. All the decorations have been put away except for the base to the train set up. All the twinkle lights are gone and it's dull, dull, dull. Even my hubby said it's dark without the Christmas tree lights. I'd love to find a stick tree or an artificial ficus, put white twinkle lights on it and stick it in the dark corner. Flip of a switch and twinkle lights appear. That would be cool. Perhaps some day.

It rained and all the snow is gone. Today was gray and gloomy. I worked half a day so I might have the holiday off this Friday. Traveling home to the parents digs on Thursday. Wish I could say it's a happily anticipated trip but unfortunately, it isn't.

My mother's dimentia is progressing so rapidly she may be a danger to herself. I'm hoping to convince my sister to get a visiting nurse in or a caretaker. My brother-in-law takes very good care of my folks but my mother needs someone who can professionally assess her. Someone with a nursing background. Eventually my mother will need 24 hour care and that requires a nursing assessment. Needless to say, our trip home is not going to be the happy reunion that it once was, long ago.