Girls Night August 26th

Girls night Friday night started with a trip to the salon in which we indulged in a much needed eye brow waxing. Although I forgot to take pictures, she looked very beautiful as usual :). Once we got to the house, our evening turned pretty nostalgic bc we went through albums and albums of old pictures. Loved seeing her smile at these. She was not as shaky this time but didn't seem to be doing as well as last visit. She was a little more confused and argumentative but I think her Dr is still tweaking her meds and hopefully get things on track.

On Monday night she was pretty out of it and must have been giving Johnny a hard time because she called me very confused 4 different times asking what time our show (movie) ended, what time we were going to bring Amelia by and what time we are going to bring our other kid by. She was also confused in crying about being worried bc me only being a six year old (with a 3 year old daughter I guess) and on and on. She was crying and crying bc she had worked herself up so much. I tried to assure her over and over that we were at home and not at any show, I was a 35 year old woman and we only have 1 child that she does not babysit and need not worry about, and that we were giving Amelia her bath and winding things down for the night. Apparently she didn't hear any of it bc she continued with her confusion. Johnny never got on the phone so I can only assume it was just one bad night and she was just super tired or her meds are out of whack. Hopefully she got some rest and her new Dr gets her meds back on to track.

On my lunch break today I will go visit her at her adult daycare, hopefully she will be her smiling self.

Girls Night August 19th

When I visited Mom at lunch last week at her adult daycare, she was in great spirits and truly with it. I also picked her up Friday night for girls night to find her pretty with it then too. She complained most of the visit about not feeling well but Amelia and I tried to keep her mind off of that by doing projects and manicures and pedicures. Even though she complained about how she was feeling, she was able to hold pretty good conversations with less confusion. It was fantastic to see this improvement!

Girls Night August 12th

Last Friday was a pretty calm evening and not so much a normal "girls night" but more of a family night. Mom and Dad Dooley came in from Baton Rouge and so we all played some Yahtzee (Mom did really really well with knowing what she needed, where it went and counting up all her points at the end...very impressed). We all chatted for awhile and all headed to dinner. She was a little anxious (esp with her shaking) but did really good other than that. She was certainly all smiles :) She is also doing really really well with not being as confused and when she does being really easily redirected. So proud of my Mamma!

I will be posting some recent pictures soon so check back soon.

Another Fun filled girls night August 5th

This past Friday Mom, Amelia and I started the evenings festivities making a fruit rainbow in which Amelia promptly ate the clouds made out of whip cream lol. We also had "movie night" sitting on a blanket and munching out of our own popcorn boxes. We tried to recreate the movie theater experience as best we could lol. (Pictures of this will be posted at a later time bc they are on a different camera) After dinner we made wind chimes out of the sea shells Amelia collected while in Florida. It was a lot of fun (and more tedious than I expected lol. Mom got a little frustrated with getting the sea shells on the string but with a little help, she did fine). She was in a really good mood and is getting around SO MUCH better these days. If you ask her how she is feeling she will DEF tell you she isn't feeling good lol but she really seems to be other than she is a little more shaky these days...possibly from a medication change? It will be brought to the attention of her new Dr in an upcoming visit. She recently went on a trip to visit family and from what I gather, she did really well and showed improvement to those loved ones. I am really proud of how well she is doing and absolutely love that smile of hers...esp when she is staring at Amelia :).