Grinning all the way.

Breakfast at BK.

You might say, I'm a photo hoarder. I have hundreds of photos either on my phone, or saved on my computer, and even a couple of memory sticks full of them. As I look through these pictures, it takes me back to days of memory. Like this one. It is October, a few years back, and it is Balloon Festival. We don't go to the launch area, we found this Burger King, not far from the launch site. As we waited for the balloons to pass overhead, we would have breakfast. Sweetie would ooh and ahhh as they passed. She still gets excited seeing a balloon, and I try to make sure she sees any that are in the air, but it's not the same. 

With Sweetie and her Dementia, I feel that I'm in some way in limbo and of course, I know that I am. I've seen it, I've read about it, and I've heard you in your comments, about being here in limbo. Heathy and wanting to do things, to travel, to visit the grandkids that live out of state. The feeling of being tied down, for who is going to watch Sweetie while I'm gone? Especially now in the pandemic. Just another hill to climb, and this too will pass. 

Saturday was a wee bit different. Sweetie didn't get up until mid afternoon. When she did get up, I tried to get her into the bathroom to change her pullups, and she fought me hard. To the point she went back to bed. When she did get up, I fixed us some Spam and eggs. This time she ate the meal. It was difficult to get her to eat these days, and because of that, she is getting weaker by the day. I got some eggnog for us. It was at one time her favorite holiday drink, I'm looking at the fat and calories in a serving, hoping it will give her a boost in her energy levels. 

We went to the mall to do our mall crawl. I've gotten to know the man that drives the train around the mall, and he has offered us a free ride, and I usually turn him down, because Sweetie didn't want to go on it. Last night, she wanted to go. So, off we went. Going around the mall, waving at mall goers and kids. I was grinning all the way. 

As the dawn come up and shows itself, I find myself in the passenger's seat, with the sky getting light on the horizon, and the promise of life coming at us, as we drive down the Road to Dementia Town, Driver and me, Keeping our Shiny Side Up. C'ya, Luv ya, and God Bless.