These are a few of my favorite quotes from the people with cognitive disabilities that I have known. 1. I know what’s wrong with me now. I went to the doctor today and found out I have a blubber (meaning bladder) infection. 2. I have a signalism (stigmatism) in my eye. (Now we know why [...]
This is Jim, my nephew who has Down Syndrome, and my dad. Jim is the son of my brother, Bill and needs constant care because of the degree of his mental retardation. He’s living in an apartment with some of his peers and trainers see to his daily living needs and he pretty much loves [...]
How many generations of little musicians have loved playing chopsticks on the piano … over and over and over? It is fun to watch my young grandchildren sitting side by side keeping strict timing and laughing and giggling over something my daughters did, I did, my mother did … all as little girls. Tonight seven [...]
It was over 103 degrees in Ivins so we went to Pine Valley … just me and my man. It was at least fifteen degrees cooler up in the shade of the pines as we sat by this bubbling creek reading our books and chatting. This is one of probably ninety times we’ve gone up [...]
I noticed Lynn has been defragmenting my computer. It shows that there are a lot of … uh … what look like dead spaces in its brain. It even has a message that says “some files cannot be defragmented.” Whoa … that’s sad. I wish I could walk into some kind of clinic and plug [...]
My son-in-law had an interesting blog today on presidential candidates. He asked the question, “Are you better off now than you were 4 or 8 years ago?” It got me thinking about the “good old days” and what changes and threats we had then as opposed to now … in the government and across the [...]
Today is Monday, Today is Monday … Monday wash day, all you hungry brothers we wish the same to you. For some reason as I loaded my first batch of laundry into my oversized washing machine today I had a flash back to my mother doing laundry when I was just a little girl. [...]
I’m talking about the good old days here … the days of … 1. Laying on the grass watching the fluffy cloud formations … back before the knees went and I could still get up off the ground by myself 2. Lemonade stands like this one when you actually made a profit because there [...]
These are the women of the family. I love and admire every one of them and don’t know what I would do without them in my life. Top left is Sandi, Warren’s wife … Me … Yeimy (pronounced Jamie) Ryan’s wife Bottom left, Kim, Brett’s wife … Angi & Kimberly, my daughters. These are the [...]
Add three babies to this mix … and one who will arrive in August … and you can see that my life is full of love! How I love these children!
