Happy Valentine's Day.

 Sweetie and her Soul Mate Sister.

Here it is, just in time, and you just don't know what I'm talking about. 

Today is Friday, its a daycare, its Valentine's Day, and the most important item item on the schedule, its my support group meeting day. 

If there was ever a day to be in my support group, today is the day. The frustrations I am going through, and the inexperience with what and what can or cannot be done, things I haven't learned yet. If I go with just what the director tells me, and not knowing what I can counter with it, is like swimming against the tide. I may make some headway but more than likely, I'll loose ground and drown in the undertow. And at the same time, I wouldn't know where the life preserver is. 

Enough of downer news and onward to the good stuff. Yesterday we took pizza over to the grandsons for lunch. I always look forward to being there, and yesterday was no exception. Out of the house, driving across town, picking up the pizzas and arriving like the wisemen bearing gifts.  

It was different this time. We walked into the home of stomach distress. It seems that the kids picked up a bug that ran through everyone and the middle boy was the last one to have it. We were told that it wasn't airborn and we were safe. Let you know. 

Of the two pizzas that we brought, one was a Hawaiian pizza with green chili. When DIL took a piece, was surprised, why should I be because she is a native New Mexican and was raised with green chili. Duh. 

I have a secondary reason to spend time with the grandkids, its to have a conversation with a like soul. We have grown to have many views that parallel views on life, kids, and authors. So it is my time to have a conversation explosion with a friendly ear. I often call her my favorite DIL, and she is quick to say that she is my only DIL. New analyze of that. She is right, she is my only DIL, that doesn't make her my favorite, our developed friendship makes her my favorite.   

She prepared a Valentine dessert for us. Chocolate dipped strawberries. Wonderful. Sweetie wasn't sure on how to eat it until I showed her. It quickly disappeared once she tried it. One of the eating difficulties with her is that food should not be messy. The chocolate on the strawberries would crack and break off. Which distracted her from the berry and on to getting the chips of chocolate off her. It is so easy for her to get distracted. 

Headed home and got there in time to take care of her business, and then off to the mall for a walk around. As we walk around, there are things that I'll say or do to get a smile out of Sweetie, such as the "Thump diddy thump thump.....thump thump". She will smile and finish with the last thump thump. When we walk and I'll make up some poem or limerick about her, our love or something that is totally silly, she just beams and we continue to walk.  

On the way of trying something new. I gave her a dose of her anti-anxiety medicine last night and will give her another dose this morning before I take her to daycare. Hoping that there is a carry over from last night. To increase effectiveness of the medicine in the morning. Right now, I'm giving her a half tab, and the instructions are to build up to a whole tab as needed. My hope is that this will be the answer of her anxiety when she get there. I hope this will work until Dementia decides to move in a new direction. 

Valentine's Day will be missed for I am a romantic at heart. This was the time when we started a love game. I found some hearts, about the size of coasters, and I would write a love note on the back and hide it somewhere easy for her to find. She would come and tell me that she "Found a heart." We did this for years. I'd hide it in her make up drawer, or in her underwear drawer, or someplace easy for her to find. She would return it to me in the same manner. I miss those love games. 

Glad to take that stroll down memory lane, its time to go. Looks like it is going to be a nice day and need to be off. I can hear the motor running, and time to get in the passenger's side, buckle in, and trust my Driver to know where we are going today, down the road to Dementia Town, avoiding the dips in the road, keeping my Shinny Side Up, basket in hand as we go. Hope you have a wonderful Valentine's day, as you go, keeping your Shinny Side Up. God Bless.