Behind The Mask
We are going to be great grandparents, baby is due 11/29/09
Found out today. It’s a girl! Exciting news. I knew we moved back here at the right time. Now we can’t wait. It’s been 20 years since there has been a baby in the family. Yes, my youngest grandchild is 20……
I have to start knitting.
Tomorrow we go to our new doctor for physicals. Hopefully, all will be well.
Talk to you tomorrow.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
Support caregivers. See my new website
www.adoptacaregiver.org
Out Of The Box
by Helene Moore
The box is a metaphor of life. I used to be in a box and no, it wasn’t fun. Dwelling in the past dredges up old painful memories, and a few good memories.
But now, life is beautiful. No longer is my inner self hidden away in a box. I am free. Free to soar, to speak freely, and to make amazing new memories.
I’m even free to be a kid again. To remember the good memories, few as they were at times when I was young.
I like the new me. My best qualities are still hanging around with my permission, and those oher qualities are allowed to come out and play, but under restrictions.
I try not to allow anger and mistrust o fill my days. Those thoughts fly in and are blown out gently but firmly.
Instead I have the time to make each and every day a day filled with love and sunshine.
The box sits inside, empty, tied with a purple ribbon. I’d gladly give it away, but I need it to remind me of who I am, where I’ve come from and where I’m going.”
Just one of my ramblings as I call them. Pick a word or phrase and let the words fly out on the paper.
Remember to keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
This birthday woman had a great day. Brunch with the family and everyone came and we had a good time talking and eating.
Now I’m as old as my husband, until August 18th. 78 years young. Our bodies may be falling apart, but we ae young at heart and still doing the things we love. That’s important, at any age.
I’ve pulled out some of my writing, and it will be slow going, but I’m sticking to it this time. I don’t have too much time to waste any more.
I will still make time to support caregivers. My www.adoptacaregiver.org is up and running. I’m starting to speak to people and make some contacts.
I encourage caregivers to vent, on paper, write out their fears, anger, whatever is bothering them. It’s so carthartic. It’s a healing process unlike any other.
Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Look in your own community and find a caregiver to adopt. The rewards are many.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
It’s my birthday tomorrow. That’s a big day. I will be 78, and birthdays are every day at my age. I love it.
I can do what I want, when I want, except for the doctors, lawyers, medical tests, and errands that need to be done.
I pulled out a big project yesterday. I found all my writing, (I hope) and put it into drawers so that I know where it is and I want to get to all the writing. My problem is I write, put it away, and I don’t edit it or do anything with it. It’s time to do something with it.
I’m working on a book. The beginning has had me stumped for years, but I think I know how to fix it now. And I need to keep working on it, and not put it away for a few years and then not know where it it.
So. my birthday resolution is to WRITE. My book, my Memoirs, my short stories, and a few poems. And I do some writing I call Ramblings. I take a word like: inspiration or courage or a cell phone and I just keep writing until I have no more words left. I’ll post one of them here one day soon.
My new www.adoptacaregiver.org is up and running, please visit.
I told you the other day about a few websites I love.
www.tenderlovingeldercare.com
www.bloggingwithoutablog.com
Especially look at www.tenderlovingeldercare and read the eulogy Linda wrote about her Mom who passed away a short while ago.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
As I have said before, I like doing First Lines, so I never have to face a blank page.
Here are a few more of my First Lines:
“Every time a writer puts his thoughts on paper, it’s a new beginning.
You robbed your mother of her greatest joy!
The bond between families is like elastic, it expands and contracts (during crisis) as needed.
The camera catches every flaw and this time was no different.
How can you hear, when you are so busy interrupting?
The evening shadows danced across the wall as she cringed in fear beside the bed, never taking her eyes off the gun pointed at her face.”
I hope some of you who like to write will start a short story using one of my first sentences.
It’s family time for me this week. Seeing all the family on Saturday, my birthday, and seeing each part of the family one day at a time. It’s such fun. So no, they’re not tired of us yet.
Please take a moment to look at my new website:
www.adoptacaregiver.org
My blog will be the same on both.
Keep love and kisses in your life. Helene
I’m catching up. Shopping to day; Costco, Borders, and Whole Foods. Tomorrow the lawyer, next week doctor appointments.
But, today I found some new websites and they are wonderful. I forgot to write down the names, but come back tomorrow and I will name them.
I’m feeling pretty good, getting things done, papers filed. Now it’s back to writing. I started a book several years ago, and I put it away, thinking I wasn’t ready to write it yet. One of the reasons I stopped, my heroine is too angry. So I think I will have to let the readers know why she is so angry, and then I can start the story. It means giving the reader a lot of information about the heroine at the very beginning, but I think it might be necessary. Otherwise, she won’t be likable.
I am so blessed to be back with my family. My grateful list just grows and grows and grows. As long as we keep our health, we will be fine.
Happiness is in the moment. This moment. The fact that I’m sitting here blogging makes me happy.
Write your memories, keep them close to your heart. Let your families know who you are, who you really are on the inside. Include your self in writing your Memoir.
Give something back. Do a kindness every day. Tell someone something nice. Pick up the phone and call an old friend. Skip the jokes, and write something on the email.
Adopt A Caregiver. Give the gift that lasts forever and costs nothing. Tell them your friend Helene Moore sent you. Don’t know how a new caregiver feels, read my book, Behind The Mask.
Keep love and kisses in you life. Helene
www.adoptacaregiver.org is now up and running
