Mom, Tell Bryan I Love Him 

It was sudden in the sense she was home, had been talking to us pretty well, and didn’t seem in any worse condition that the day before. I can look behind me and see her kidneys and bowels had been shutting down.  She was just at the doctor Wednesday and he didn’t seem concerned. He …

All the signs of dementia. 

It has all the signs of a dementia. Dementia explains many of the things we witnessed over the past couple years.  What we thought was addiction behavior was probably dementia. It wasn’t that she wanted to take too much medication, it is likely she didn’t remember taking it.  Once we got a handle on her …

Cheater Cheddar 

I finally did it! I made my first small “wheel” of cheese.  I have been itching to make cheese for a long time. I ordered several books on homemade cheese from Amazon. I even attended a small workshop a couple weeks ago.  The workshop helped make sense of what I found in the books. It …

Homecooked Ketchup Memories

Spending time with the kids is fun and exhausting! Add a kettle of steaming tomatoes and it gets tricky! With the remodel and move, I did not plant the sized garden I did last year. The little I did plant isn’t growing well at all. So, I picked up a half bushel of canning tomatoes …