May 17, 2009 Mom's Birthday

Mom was 17 with only 9 days to her 18th birthday when I was born.
Sunday we celebrated her 84th birthday. We held a Banana Split party
for her at the Nursing Home (Manor Care in So Ogden)

She really enjoyed the ice cream, they say that with the Alzheimers and
Dementia patience the taste for sweets is one of the last tastes to go.
As mom is diabetic, she hasn't been able to enjoy Ice Cream or sweeets as much as she would like to for a very long time, but enjoy it she did this Sunday, several times I would see her at the table trying to dip her hand in the ice cream bucket for a bit more ice cream :)

Mom buzzed all over in her wheel chair, irregardles of people or things that might be in her way. We had to watch out for her and MOVE if she came our way.

I'm not sure that she knows who we all are, but I think we all looked familiar to her, and I think she wanted to have everyone together, at least it seemed that way when Cheri and I visited with her on the tuesday before her birthday, she kept saying something like "we should all be together" Mom always loved to have her family around her. It's very hard to have a conversation with mom, she tries so hard to tell you things but what she says really doesn't make a lot of sense. It's really hard for several of the grandchildren to go and visit with her, it's hard to see her in the shape she is in. It's Very hard for each one of her children too, but as long as she lives I intend to keep visiting, it's really one of the only things I can still do for my mom in this life. And though in this life she may forget who I am and that I'm her daughter, I can still remember who she is and savor some of the memories we have had together.

Happy Birthday to my Mom, Joy Matilda Bentley Bills, May 17th, 2009. I hope we were able to bring a little pleasure into her life on her 84th birthday