Light through the clouds

Yesterday was National Alzheimer's Awareness Day. I feel like every day is awareness day for me ha ha. Today is Monday, Sept 22, 2008. I waited until 6:30pm to give my mom a call today basically because I was so busy. Today was a good day. Not only did I get what I needed to get done today, I didn't have anyone calling me telling me anything negative for a change. She seemed to have a good day too. She seemed to be my old mom. She was telling me about the garage sale, and told me each thing that I sold, added it all up and said you made $15.00!! I think she's still quicker at math than I am. She said she was working on a 1000 piece puzzle, and my younger son talked to her on the phone. I could only hear his side of the conversation, but she seemed to be asking relevant questions (Did you finish your homework, what did you do today in school. .) I stressed again how we couldn't wait to see her, and she said after her next court date she hoped she could come. That court date is October 6th. I really hope she'll come up and stay with us for a while. It would be good for her. I miss her too. I miss seeing her play with my boys.

One thing that made me laugh today is that my mom is not supposed to get any of her mail. Today, she said she watched the mailman go by the house at the normal time which is about 2:00pm, but then at 5:00, he came back and gave her a sweepstakes thing. She's not supposed to get any mail, much less a sweepstakes offer. She got all excited and has already sent it back. She told me not to tell ANYONE that she got her mail today. I asked her did she send any money and she said "NO! if you have to send money it's scam! I didn't send any money, I just checked no contribution today and mailed it back." I'm wondering if maybe it came UPS or something, but who knows.

She seemed in very good spirits, and was actually laughing and said she didn't make any phone calls today. I wish every day was like today.

On a side note, I'm a photographer, so occasionally I'll be throwing up some of my work just to break up the space a little. This was taken this summer in Hollister, CA. It's called Positive Negative Tree. Do you see the negative tree? I thought it was sorta cool, but it also works for the title of this entry.