Another Mom Day

It seems like you just hum along in life actually getting into a routine that is almost like swimming under water. You don't have to pay a lot of attention to anything in particular and then something happens to make you start thinking. It doesn't have to be something tremendous, just something to take you out of that trance like state of being where songs play over in your head or what I think of as brain auto-pilot. We go through so many days of sameness, no time to reflect on things, time goes too fast and some days it seems like I look up at the clock and it's three o'clock again and I have passed through another day, another week. It's kind of scary. What takes me out of those days is a mom day. It is stressful because she is actually doing pretty well for 83 but I see some rapid signs that the thought process is diminishing. We laugh, but I worry about having to take the control away from her and I don't want to do that. I find myself hoping we all drop dead suddenly which you may think is rather morbid but my dad went fairly quickly and it was really a blessing for him as well as my mom. So enough of this talk, I will tell you how the mom day was. We decided to stop at a carry out pizza place where there were no cars but carry out you figure there is just a lull right? It had an Italian name so I figure it has to be good. Ha! I go in the ovens are cold there are no pizza's being made. There is one little Asian lady at the counter. So being the brave soul that I am I order pizza. I had a hard time understanding how much money she wanted and was worried because it ended up being less than was stated on the menu board. You have to wonder about getting any food at a deep discount. That and the language barrier made ordering pizza quite a lengthy ordeal with her talking very loudly to me like I was a deaf tard. She wasn't smiling, but when I stepped back in to get it she was smiling so I felt better but for some reason worried that she was smiling. Mom and I got a good laugh out of it but the pizza had no taste to speak of. I haven't been able to spend much time with mom because of the weather so we played some Boggle. We both love it and have been playing it for several years. It lets me see how her cognitive skills are doing. Sometimes they are better than others but we try to keep her in crosswords or puzzles to keep her thinking. She is so far also still doing her own finances. But I think we may need to check those. Anyway, you find words in a jumble of letters and have three minutes to write down what you find. After that time you compare lists and mark out any that are the same. What is remaining is your score. One point per word, 2 for 5 letter words etc. She just leaped ahead of me on the first game and I asked her what she was doing. She counted all the words. She had just forgotten or something didn't click or whatever happens so I said, "You can't count the ones you marked out, you crazy old woman!" She just cracked up and we had a fine time.