Me and my daughters.

Me and my daughters.

Life, no matter how hard you try to plan it, life has a way of getting out of control. 

Anything as tiny as spilled milk, to a major life event, there isn't any way I can control what is going to happen in the future. Plan for the worse, hope for the best and somewhere in the middle, I can carve out a reasonably happy life. 

As long as I can keep my eye on the now, and what is most important to me. My now is named Sweetie, and what is important to me is that she be safe, happy, and close to me. 

Friday

It started out with Sweetie getting up and coming out long before I was expecting. Way too early. So we headed to the bathroom to get things done. Gave her her morning dose, cleaned up, and put her back to bed. Which turned out to be the right choice. She went right to sleep. 

Got her up for breakfast, and she kept going back to the bedroom when I turned my back on her. Got breakfast, and after she ate, back to bed she went. 

That made my choice easy. She needs some down time and her body is telling her that is what needs to be done. 

We've been here before, and with me becoming more comfortable leaving her for a short time, the decision was made. Her in bed, me on the course. She slept, I played. 

The afternoon was a mixed bag of good and rough times. 

The good was getting her up and moving. The trip to the mall for our walk about went well. It was the grocery shopping that caused some concern. 

As we were shopping, Sweetie seemed OK, but tired. Concern, I quickly finished and was at the check out when she fainted. I felt lucky because I was there, and the friendly people at Walmart were there to help. We were able to get a chair under her before she check out for a few minutes. 

When she was able to get it together, we got one of the motorized carts to take her to the car. By then she was able to make it to and into the car. She napped all the way home, and I put her back to bed as soon as we got home.  

Letting her sleep until dinner time, this time I didn't get her up until I had dinner on the table. I put together another chicken, rice, veggie meal and again she ate more than normal. 

It was a birthday meeting this night, and I knew there would be people there to cheer her up, and boy was I right. 

From the moment we walked into the meeting room, people came up and greeted her, and she was beaming. It lifted her spirits right up. Had cake and ice cream as the meeting went on. I feed her, and she ate. We had a wonderful time. 

Home to sit and watch Johnny Carson's old Tonight Show. Sweetie sits with me smiling and laughing when Johnny is at his best. Then off to bed we went. What a wonderful ending of the day. 

It looked like there were storm clouds at the beginning of our road trip this morning. Drive was able to either out run the storm, or knew how to go around it. Didn't matter which way He went, all we know is that we had another day of twist and turns along with smooth pavement this day on the Road to Dementia Town, and this too, we were able to Keep Our Shiny Side Up. C'ya, Luv Ya, and God Bless.