Wyld Creativity: Thanks Giving Weekend- Saturday

Monday, October 13, 2008

Thanks Giving Weekend- Saturday

Saturday

We had our first official family thanksgiving without anyone older to help. Rochelle was amazing. She cooked everything we ate and it was delicious. We had a big juicy turkey, mashed potatoes, and cauliflower with cheese, squash, stuffing, and homemade pickles. Everything tasted incredible. And best of all we worked together to do it. Rochelle is an amazing cook. She learns from trying and she does a great job. Her apple pie was delicious too. Blair was saying when he gets engaged he is going to send his finance to Canada to get Canadian wife training here. She would come to learn how to cook, bake, decorate, sew, pretty much everything our family is big on here. Rochelle would be her instructor.

After dinner we went to visit my grandma in the hospital. We went in Andrew’s new shiny red car which is like a sports car, it was a bumpy ride in the back though. Andrew had driven all the way to Texas and back to get itand he just got back on Friday. So we took his new ride to the Hospital and Rochelle and I danced to music in the back seat.

Visiting Grandma-

It was an eye opening experience. My grandma has lost so much of her mobility skills. That is in front part of the brain that functions to allow you to walk, talk, tie your shoes, and bake cookies. It’s the part of your brain you need in order to remember how to do things. She was admitted to the hospital last week and with this disease she is unable to communicate well as she can barely speak. So as she can’t lift her hands and process food in her mouth, often people die. So what was interesting is the different opinions people have on the state of someone’s mind when they are going through this. She will say things she doesn’t usually say like stupid and just go, no a lot and leave me alone. Some may say that those are signs that her brain is not there functioning anymore. After spending a couple of days with her I really believe against that.

You have to know my Grandma to understand. She has always been the type of person who prided herself in doing things the right way, the way that looked perfect, from baking to sewing and everything else. Anything less than perfect was not acceptable. She was an amazing hand writer, very detailed decorated and hair stylist. My grandma was always looking beautiful and made an effort to stay healthy and young. As now as her body is completely out of her control and she is not able to eat normally, and walk and talk and dress herself, she is frustrated and upset. When we see her now she continues to say no, just go. She gets worked up and upset while you are there. In between breaths there are long sighs of frustration in trying to make us understand where she is coming from. I really believe she is completely there in her mind. She knows how she must look and she doesn’t want us to see her that way and this is why she says no just go, not because she’s lost her mind but because she can only use a few words to express how she is feeling and that’s her inner cry.

What we have found is that if you ask her questions she can answer she does without always saying no. Kyle was really good at calming her down yesterday. He told her that we came all the way from Burlington to see her and we didn’t want to go and after he said that she stopped saying don’t go. I believed she knew who we were and once we had a conversation with her telling her how hard it must be to not be at home and that she would be somewhere more comfortable soon she felt more at peace that we understood that she just wanted to go home. After she felt like she was understood she was less frustrated and she wanted to eat something and drink something. I think a lot of people with this disease feel alone because they can’t express themselves and people don’t understand how frustrating it is for them.

It requires so much understanding and patience and I am confident in my family, we all love grandma so much. Grandpa is almost living at the hospital, My Aunt Pam and uncle Zeke especially, Pam lives in St Catherine’s and she has really had to adjust her life to take care of grandma. My mom is coming home today from B.C and is going straight to the hospital, my uncle Steven and Elizabeth where there over the weekend too along with Rochelle and all of us. With everyone’s help I believe we can make grandma feel the best that is possible and insure that she has water and pineapple and anything she needs when she needs it. With our love and attention we can take some of her frustration away.
I know all we want is for Grandma to be taken care of and feel the best that she can. We want her to feel like she is at home.

After the hospital visit and bringing grandpa some Apple pie and dinner we came back home and Mel and Blair were here. I had to work on my lay out assignment while Andrew was around to help so with his help I was able to finish it that night. I had spent the entire day working on that while Rochelle was cooking and after dinner. Thanksgiving was amazing and although not all of the family was here we had such a great day.

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The Story of a Prince and a Girl who Dreamed of finding Her Prince.

Once upon a time there was a young woman named Ruby; she lived in a far way kingdom where only the stars in the sky could light the way. The kingdom was tall and made of stone. Inside, it had all of the finest linens and tapestries with winding stair cases, golden mirrors and exotic flowers that stretched the kingdom’s stone walls. The kingdom was surrounded by a large creek bed and had a large wooden draw bridge outside the tall black iron front gates. Beyond the kingdom were many forests, pastures, rivers and hills.

The young woman lived in the kingdom with only her two servants Nigel and Jasmine. They had been with Ruby ever since her mother gave birth to her and have cared for her and loved her since the great royal war that took her family tragically away from her. Years had past since then and Ruby was a young woman now. Since the great royal war she had not seen another person beside her servants. The lands had been deserted as other kingdoms were destroyed and abandoned. No one knew this kingdom existed. It stood in a far off place that only one deserted over grown pathway in the forest would lead to.

Ruby spent her childhood growing up playing with all the animals in the forest, she had names for all of them and would spend her days dancing in the pastures and walking along the creek bed throwing stones into the water. She was content those days as she lived free and enjoyed every tree, every stone, and every pathway near the kingdom. She loved her home but she missed her family and many times she felt alone.

As Ruby grew older she began to stop playing in the pastures and instead she spent her days walking along the creek bed dreaming of finding love and not being alone anymore. Every night outside her balcony she would spend time looking out into the stars and making wishes that one day soon a wonderful man would find the unmarked path in the forest that would lead him to her kingdom.

Nigel and Jasmine were very old now; Ruby took time to care for them and tended to their needs. She would gather food from the garden and make them food to eat and get them blankets to make sure they were comfortable when it was cold. She was not sure how much longer they would live but one thing she knew was how much she admired they’re love for one another and she hold that in her heart for as long as she lived.

It was a warm fall evening; the leaves from the trees were lightly falling as the sun began to set. Ruby was standing on her balcony in her long white silk night gown. As the dark sky began to shine, a light breeze bustled against her gown and her long brown hair blew lightly in the wind. She stood with her hands on the balcony ledge and wished to the stars like she had so many nights before singing” Star light Star bright bring my prince home to me tonight” She stared up into the dark blue sky and began to talk more to the shinning stars.

Just as she was looking up into the sky, talking to the stars a man was following the pathway from the forest that leads to Ruby’s kingdom. He was beginning to approach the edge of the pathway he had began journeying on earlier that day and was about to step on to a beautiful white shiny stoned pebble walk way that would lead up to a draw bridge and to Ruby’s kingdom.

The young man had been travelling for months only eating what he could find along the pathway. Henry was a prince from the golden city of Persia. He was on an expedition when he was captured by rivals and taken to a far away land where he was imprisoned in a place he did not know. Months ago after many nights planning Henry escaped while the guards were sleeping. He thought he would be able to journey home by recognizing land marks but once he had fled the guards he realized that he was further from home then he ever imagined and much to his dismay he did not recognize any of his surroundings. He had been following the sun in hopes of finding his way home. Each day he walked further hoping that one day the pathway would lead him to his family.

Earlier that day Henry had been walking though the forest with large green bushes and fruitful trees around him when he saw a small unmarked pathway that was ragged and old. There were no fruit trees, only old tall trees and an old pebble pathway that seemed run down and abandoned.

He was going to continue to walk on the pathway he had been but something caught his eye as he walked past this abandoned trail. Henry saw a small red ruby attached to a ring lying in between some wet leaves. The sun was shining on it and it glistened and shinned at him. He bent down and lifted the leaves around it away and dusted the ring off and looked at. The ring was prestigious and fit for a princess. He thought about continuing on the main pathway road through the forest but he was drawn down this unmarked pathway. He wondered if this ruby red ring belonged to someone. He put the ring in his pocket and began to walk along the jagged unmarked pathway. He noticed that there were no markings along this pathway so it appeared that no one had walked this pathway for many years.

To Be Continued…

Wyld Creativity

Overcome.

Monday, October 13, 2008

Thanks Giving Weekend- Saturday

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