Sunshine and Lollipops?

Well today marks one week since the big, tough, scary decision to move Mom into a nursing home. Friday was a dark day indeed, Mom hated my ever living guts. Not such a surprise there, who wants to go to a nursing home? Not such a surprise there too as this isn't the first time she's hated my ever living guts.

My sister and I gave ourselves the key to the flood gates, allowing rivers of sadness, sorrow and a little bit of doubt to run it's course and trickle away into clearer thinking.

The second day of nursing nursing home life for Mom, we went to see her with GREAT trepidation, thinking she would not be any where near adjusted or even over being mad about the whole thing..(who could blame her?) and what we found was, was..... Hmmmmm.

I looked around her new room, up and down the halls, Hmmmm, everything looked normal.. people walking around, 'Good morning' and 'how are yew' and smiles coming at me... Hmmm. I looked back at Mom, 'The people are really nice here' and 'this is a nice place' sounds were coming out of her lips, through a bright face and pleasant smiling lips.... I began to wonder just what Fletcher had done this time as I was sure I was on the wrong planet.

What happened to yesterday when everyone was mad at everyone and the world seemed upside down? Ohhhhhhh, THAT'S it,

Yesterday the world was turned upside down and I fell off! I must be on some other planet right now, these people are not earthlings and the smiling woman in front of me saying pleasant things could NOT be my real mother!

Now the question was, do I want to go back to planet Earth where everything was so dark yesterday or do I want to stay on this planet where everything is sunshine and lollipops.

I like sunshine and lollipops.

I guess the sunshine and lollipops gods decided to let me stay because I've been here a week and the lady that looks like my Mother is still smiling.

Fletcher, if you tried to throw a wrench in my works, it didn't work! I think your wrench fixed a few leaking pipes, I can say that because none of us, Mom, myself or my sister have any more water problems on our faces.

I'm sure the nursing home thing isn't what we all would have chosen if we had our druthers, but I'm also sure all involved have figured out how to make the best of it. (Well, most of us but that's another story)

Sunshine and Lollipops. Thanks, Fletch.