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Me and my girls went with my mom to my Gramma's house for Easter long weekend. We do try and go at least once a year as Gram's not getting any younger! She seems to be suffering now from early Alzheimer's. She's forgetting things, sometimes repeating things, doing things twice or not at all and getting more ornery than she used to be. I love her, a lot! But it's hard going now when she's not the same anymore. The trip started off well enough, nice and early wednesday morning we started our 10-12 hour drive to Saskatchewan. The babe slept on and off, the big girl watched her movies, coloured and generally did her thing. All in all not a bad trip.
Gram was happy to see us of course. She LOVES the baby. She wanted nothing else but to have the babe sitting with her and she did lots of watching! By saturday though, you could tell she wanted her house back just a little bit. Saturday was my mom's 58th birthday. We celebrated with a homemade poppyseed chiffon cake with fluffy yummy 7-minute frosting. We only had 12 candles and mom thought she was just going to get away with that. LOL I re-lit them until we hit 58!!! She had the kids helping her blow them out. It was fun!!
Easter sunday saw the whole family over for dinner, we had a bit of everything!! It was so yummy. We have a traditional dessert on my mom's side that we always had at easter, christmas or any other occasion like that. Our family calls it Napoleon cake. We don't know it's actual name. It has about 10 layers with some pudding mixture between each layer, it's SO GOOD. We actually all fight over it. If there is a piece left, watch out!!! Since Gram's is aging, she has stopped making this amazing yumminess. My mom and my aunt and uncle have taken turns trying to conquer this dessert and making it good. We have had dry versions, sticky versions, and some in between. In the last two years both my mom and my aunt and uncle have managed to perfect it and it turns out amazing! Every gathering it is asked if someone made it, and as it is a time consuming desert to make, no one usually does. This year though, SURPRISE! My aunt and uncle made an amazing cake! It was soooooo good. There was a piece leftover (it was for my other aunt who was working) this is it in the fridge.
Notice the price tag? hahaha.
We played a few rounds of scrabble, Gramma has forgotten the rules. Which sucks. After the rest of the fam left, my Grams asked who the young guy was who had dinner and played scrabble with us was. It was my cousin! That was a bit of a shocking moment!!
On top of all that, my father in law went into the hospital with major problems with his heart condition. He has arrythmia and has had a pacemaker for a few years. He still has attacks, but not normally violent ones anymore. This weekend, he had non stop attacks for over 12 hours. Nothing is working to make them stop. It has been pretty touch and go. Can a heart continue to be under that kind of stress for a long time? He was supposed to have surgery today, but this has been postponed to the 13th now and he is on new meds. What a shit show! They keep saying there isn't anything they can do. It was hard being away from my husband while he was going through this, but apparently he doesn't need me in stressful situations. We have a one way marriage I guess.
Keep us in your thoughts and prayers. I hope you all had a wonderful Easter! Here are some shots of my Easter babies!
Category:
Alzheimers,
Easter,
Gramma,
Heart
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