Helping the Easter Bunny

I'm thinking about a craft.
An Easter craft that Mom can work on then take

to the Nursing Home to give away.

If this turns out to be too
messy, labor intense, difficult we'll scale down
the project and just make a few and give to some
children. 

Mom enjoys crafts and I've not come up with anything for her to "craft" since Christmas.  Gotta get back into the groove.  We'll see how this goes.

BTW, the original crafting idea suggested putting a piece of candy inside each egg, if that's too much of a problem we'll just have to eat the candy.  Oh the things I'm willing to do to make this work.  *wink

A Purse by any other name would still be a purse. . .

Mom's purse has become an issue.

It's similar to the one above.
It looks just fine
but it's a monster when you want 

to find things.

Until the onset of dementia Mom purchased a new purse almost every season.

That has changed now.

She's had the purse she's carrying a very long time.

I've suggested she buy a new one, but she's not the least bit interested in buying one.  I would be happy to buy one for her but I KNOW she wouldn't carry it, especially since it's become sort of a "power struggle" between us.  

Today we were in a store and Mom was buying candy bars.  The line was long and people were becoming inpatient as she dug through all the pockets of her purse (each one having a separate zipper) to find her money.  I've had a purse with lots of pockets before and it taught me to never, EVER, buy that type of purse again.  I understand  her dilemma. We've discussed the purse "issue" several times, but she refuses to budge.

Today, as we got back into the car to leave the store, I said,  "Mom", that purse is sucky (sorry, but that was my word), you need to get a purse without all those pockets".  (Yes, I was a little snippy, but not rude.)

"I do NOT", she replied, shooting me an angry look.
"It looks a lot better than that thing you carry!".

Touche'!
Mom still has her spunky side.
I. LOVE. IT.
And I love my Mom.

Birthday Gifting

We've had the fun of celebrating (my granddaughter) Mom's great granddaughter's birthday.  Nothing like putting a one year old in the midst to insure it's a PARTY!  Mom wanted to get her a gift so we headed to the toy aisle at Target.  Mom welded the shopping cart and chose her gift, without any input from me.

She did a GREAT job!

Haylee Kate LOVED it!