I have been so busy lately I haven't had much time for blogging. I have so much I want to share so I will share some tonight and promise to blog again soon to catch up on the rest. First off, our soccer season is coming to an end, 9 more days. I truly enjoy watching my children play soccer but will be glad when our lives are back to normal. This soccer season has been unordinarily hectic and chasing a 2 year old around at the soccer park night after night makes for a very tired mommy. The kids teams did very well this year and both teams placed 2nd in their league. Next week is the Dragon Cup tournament and I am excited to see how they place, no matter what I am extremely proud of the both of them and my husband as well who as it turns out is a natural at this coaching thing and plans to coach again next year.
Another reason our lives have been so hectic lately is that my mother in law was moved into a nursing facility a few months back and is not doing so well. She was diagnosed with dementia last year. They attempted to put my mother in law on several different medications to slow the progression of her illness but she had bad side effects from each one and was eventually taken off any medications that could have helped. From that point on the dementia got worse. It first attacked her memory and then her speech and it eventually got so bad she began having seizures and lost so much of her muscle control in her legs that she now needed a wheel chair and 24 hr care. That is when the hard decision came to place her in a nursing facility that could give her the care my father in law no longer could at home. My mother in law is not able to feed herself anymore and needs help but does not do well with the staff at the home feeding her so family members take turns going up there to feed her meals to her. My husband works a lot of hours at work and with the soccer we were usually going up just on the weekends but my sister in law went on vacation for ten days and we needed to take over her dinner schedule while she was gone, we were more than happy to help and actually enjoyed spending every evening with her, but this also made for an extremely hectic schedule. There were days when I was cooking my family dinner at 8 o'clock at night and my husband and I barely saw each other but we made it through and things are finally getting easier at home. For anyone out there who has a family member with dementia, this is a very tough disease on the person who has it and on the family who loves them and my heart goes out to you all. I pray for my husband and his family every night. It breaks my heart to see the pain they are in every day and I hope that some day someone finds a cure or a way to prevent this.
Okay now that I have gotten all sentimental on you I will share some happier news. My husband got a job offer he could not refuse the other day. He will be working for a great company making more than $5 more an hour, better hours and better benefits and we couldn't be happier! Over three years ago when my husband lost a great job of almost 10 years we were devastated, I had just found out I was pregnant and soon after loosing his job I lost mine. It was a tough time for our family but we manged to make it through. After 7 months of looking for a job he finally found one working for what he thought would be a good company but turned out to be a very selfish company who works their employees dry and does not compensate well, but it was a job and he needed one so for two and a half years he has been there dreading every work day, but grateful to have a job he rarely complained, and now after all this time he can finally kiss that company good bye and in just a couple weeks start this new adventure.
Okay well that is all I have time for tonight so as always I hope everyone has a wonderful day and something to smile about!
No comments:
Post a Comment