Sleep - or lack thereof

Well, I was up at 5:30 again this morning. Wish I would stop that - that little sleep really cuts into my functioning the rest of the day. I wake up and I am UP. Can't go back to sleep! - until 8 or 10 a.m. - right when I need to be either going somewhere or doing something constructive around the house! I'm getting tired of it!

Besides that, not much is going on. We have Mom with us until the early part of April, when they finish her two room suite in the Manor. She seems to be looking forward to living there. She hasn't asked to go to her apartment at all since she has been home. We haven't done a bit of packing, or organizing what we want moved to the new place. Mom does want her organ and piano moved with her. I don't know why she would want that, but I will do it for her because she asked. There is some opposition to it here, but that's what she wants and they are her possessions, so I can't refuse to have them moved! Don't know if she will have room for anything else with the piano and organ there, but like I said, they belong to her. For some reason they seem to bring her comfort, even though she hasn't played either one of them for nearly a year.

Mom hasn't been home to her apartment for 10 months! It seems a bit strange to me that she hasn't wanted to go there since she has been back in KS for a month or two, but there's no pushing her. Course, I resisted when she first came back because I wasn't sure that she could handle being there by herself. She is just kind of unsteady on her feet after having fallen getting on the plane in Minneapolis. She's much better now, except she still stumbles a bit.

Parkinsons Disease - that curse that is making Mom stumbly and causing her to move unvoluntarily - is really a curse! It causes slurred speech, lots of mouth movements without her thinking about it, slowing of reflexes, and a posture that is leaning forward at the waist, which in turn makes the back ache. This is all so new to any and all of us, that we didn't know for sure what it does to a body until we looked it up on line. Then I knew too much and was disquieted a bit by what I had read. Mom may even be getting to end stage PD. Or she may just gradually fail in her health, like she has been doing. She is such a frail little old lady now. But, I guess when you have been on this earth for 94 and 5/6 years, you might be wearing out a little bit. She has always been in better shape than I am, especially since my arthritis has flaired up.

All this aside - My mother is still a joy to have around and we are enjoying her being with us alot. When she moves out to the Manor it will seem extremely empty without her here, but knowing she is just a mile and a half away doesn't let it get toooo lonely. I can't imagine what life will be like when she is no longer on this earth somewhere! I praise God for letting us have Mom all our lives and into our older ages. Never would have thought that I would be taking care of a 94 yr old mother at 62! What a trip - and what a terrific blessing to have her with us. If I can bless her back by just a little bit, it will all be worth it.