Laughter is the Best Medicine

It is so cold for me, when my mother says she is cold I can only imagine how cold she really is. I know the cold does not help with her arthritis, and the arthritis will only get worse with time. Of course when you have had as many surgeries as she has had and look like a road map where the scars are, you would probably have aches and pains too.

All in all she has weathered pretty well through the cold spells that we have been having. I do hope that we can have some kind of a break in this weather soon though, so she can have some kind of relief.

With her being by herself at the house all day long it can make for some very long and boring days. My mother has been a stay at home wife and mother all of her life, so her best friends have always been the Daily Soaps (General Hospital, All My Children, As the World Turns) when I get home in the evening from work she wants me to sit down at the dining room table, so I can hear what each person did on her daily soaps that day. I cannot stand soaps so I sit and smile and nod my head, all the while hoping that the story will end very soon. But it makes her feel good to tell me about them, so I will continue to endure the stories.

Of course this is after picking up the new package that has been left on the front porch from the home shopping network by the UPS driver. All they have to say is daily special on the home shopping network and she has got to have it, although it will probably be put into a bedroom and never opened, because she forgets what she gets until she stumbles over it 6 months or more later.

With the bad weather, she has refused to leave the house if the electric should go out like it did in 2007. So this Sat. we have a man coming out to give us an estimate on what a stationary back up generator will cost to be installed in the house. She wants it to automatically cut on if we should ever lose power. All this will be done on a house that was built in the 1950’s. But this is her home, and if it makes her feel safe and adds to her peace of mind, so be it.

I will have to let you know how this goes next week after I find out all the details. I will let you decide if it is something that you want to try and do.

Everyday is a new challange at my house, but I have learned to embrace each new challange with open arms, it helps to keep me grounded.

Remember to smile, this could be happening to you!

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