It's the Easter weekend, so naturally, there is a religious epic on tv. Husband is currently watching The Ten Commandments. I'm in the same room but am occupying my time eating miniature chocolate eggs, flipping through online pictures of Hollywood's shortest actors, and reading blogs. All very important.
Yesterday, husband picked daughter up from university and we had a supper with mother-in-law (sprung from "the home"), daughter and boyfriend, son and girlfriend. It was nice to have a full table. I relied on my usual big meal of frozen pre-stuffed turkey and various veggies and rolls. Mother-in-law regaled us with her tales of the time span from which she derives all memories these days. Dementia can be "interesting" if it wasn't so dreadful. As she slowly sinks deeper into dementia, her edit button is used less and less, with questionable topics ranging from bodily function to on-the-verge of politically incorrect. The kids and their partners took it all in good stride, but when she got to the story of the peasant woman wet nurse my husband shouted from the next room, "Mother!!" It was to no avail, for once a story is started, it must flow through to completion.
I just looked up and Charlton Heston is currently bowing before the talking burning bush. Personally, I would have freaked out.
The weather took a turn. We awoke to snow on the ground. Not a lot, but snow nonetheless. Blah.
Mother-in-law sprung from the home - that made me laugh! Happy Easter Jen.
ReplyDeleteGod bless mother in law....we never know what life has in store for any of us. I am so glad the children stuck it out. We watched the Ten Commandments yesterday. To think it was an epic movie with no computer imagining. Amazing. Blessings to all of you,this beautiful Easter Sunday. xoxo, Susie
ReplyDeleteMy kids great grandma would shout (thinking she was whispering) "you know...there are a lot of N-words working here. She was 101 and from the south. When she was a little younger she remembered it was not OK to say that but after 90 she lost all filters. We loved her dearly but it made for an uncomfortable situation. I'm glad your MIL has a family who cares for her and understands. Happy, happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteMy father used to go on and on about the Filapina ladies who worked at his home. For their sake, I'm glad there were no African American nurses. He did have a Muslim doctor who he ADORED though, so he wasn't to far gone. Whew.
DeleteHappy Easter Jenn. It is good for the younger generation to hear things as they used to be methinks.
ReplyDeleteSnow forecast here for tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteLove the pussy cat header.
Love the Mother in law story. You have to laugh when you can at this horrible disease. Your Easter sounds terrific x Has the film finished yet? Back in those days, epic meant epic!!
ReplyDeleteDementia, I worry, I'm strange enough without that happening. You're good-hearted to spring your MIL. My father had no filters and he didn't have dementia
ReplyDeleteI work with people who have dementia and some of the things they say! When we have staff meetings there are some stories that are so funny! Most of the time it’s a sad and stressful job so we have to laugh occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI am wishing your snow away.
"Mother-in-law sprung from the home"... Is it bad I smiled at that?
ReplyDeleteDementia does have people saying the most interesting and unusual things, some of them quite alarming. It's rather tragic.
Sounds like a lovely gathering. A full table with loved ones is always the best.
We have rain and snow forecast for the entire week. Tough spring!
ReplyDeleteFamily gatherings are always an adventure. I love the 10 Commandments. It is agreata movie. Happy Easter.
ReplyDeleteLovely family Easter. We have religious epics on TV all this week, most winding up on Saturday night. Our Easter is one week behind this year. Lamb of course on our menu
ReplyDeleteAh yes the array of Easter stories - our church has a whole library of both Christmas & Easter movies; we enjoyed The Robe along with The Ten Commandments. Sounds like a joyous family gathering even with the peasant wet nurse story thrown in ... Mary-Lou =^..^=
ReplyDeleteThis post made my day, having spent a painful four hours with my demented father who manages to suck all the light and air out of a room within seconds. I'm with you on the talking burning bush. I would have been down the mountain with my pants on fire.
ReplyDeleteHi Jenn! We had a full table too. It was joyful! No snow in the Ottawa Valley thank goodness!
ReplyDeleteHi Jenn... I would have been right next to taking care of business while hubby was watching The Ten Commandments. Too funny about your MIL. Hope you have a great week.
ReplyDeleteI laughed so hard at your pass-time...shortest actors, like Webster? LOL...glad you had a nice dinner, too bad about the snow, we're awaiting a nice ice storm tonight, blah is right!
ReplyDeleteIt's snowing here today, too... after a few days of actual Spring. Bleh is right.
ReplyDeleteAll praise to you for giving her time out!..Let her tell her stories..it does her good
ReplyDeleteI would have freaked out too. If my bushes start burning for no reason at all, I'm pretty sure it's a chemical spill.
ReplyDeleteWho IS the shortest actor? We're due for snow tomorrow. Easter was cold (but tech free). Yours sounds like one to remember for sure.
Hi, new reader here. I found you via one of the English bloggers. Just went back to the beginning of your blog and got a bit carried away and here I am now caught up. I was having a bit of mooching day and lo! your (recent) life has sort of whizzed past my eyes. In summary: glad you're feeling better with your problem in the Pants Department; glad you didn't stick with the gluten-free diet (old news); love your garden pics and your feline pics; and can't believe the snow you get, then the amazing floral displays when summer rolls around - so dramatic compared to the temperate climes in my neck of the woods. I could say it is your writing style that has drawn me in but to be honest it's your little pic in the corner...I'm loving the Hair!!
ReplyDeleteI'm arriving late at the party. How did I miss this post?? It may be part of the "hurrier I go, the behinder I get" syndrome I seem to be in right now.
ReplyDeleteBless your children and their special friends for gracing your Easter table. And you must admit your MIL added some "interest" to the conversation. Mine (my MIL, when she was alive) didn't have dementia but did insist on telling the same old stories over and over and over that made everyone want to feign deafness and slink away.
There certainly are a lot of areas that getting late winter (or is it early spring?) snows. Not the situation here in northern Minnesota which is fine given the time of year. Hang in there.
Ah, isn't that nice? My mother would have been 93 this 4th of April.
ReplyDeleteWe also had a family gathering at Easter and it was at the home of my husband’s cousin in CT. It was a bit hectic with 5 children, 18 adults, 2 dogs but good to be able to be together. Even though the stories your MIL relates may be hard to re-hear, these times are all too short lived.
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