Feeling like a teenager ...

Today was such a great day with Mom! She was quite sassy, I love it when she is sassy. She laughed and smiled a lot and was very affectionate! She was responsive and put several sentences together which is not that common. Oh my gosh I love it when she is like this ... it is so much like old times! For example, when I feed her sometimes I feel like I rush her and I think to myself, I wish she would tell me to chill if I am rushing her. So today she did, she was chewing, 100 times I guess like her Mother told her, and I was holding another spoonful to her mouth. "Just a minute", she said! Louis and I busted out laughing and I really bragged on her for verbalizing that! Then when I was getting her ready for bed I changed up my routine a bit. Normally I explain everything I am doing as I do it but today I thought I had messed up and had her briefs inside out and so I was investigating. She started yelling, "No, No, stop that". I said, "Oh I am sorry Mom, that was not the normal routine was it?" She said angrily, "No it was not!" So that is okay, that is good, she has learned to expect and accept the normal routine and that is okay for her ... that explains the fact that she has not been getting upset during changes. When the routine strays from the "norm" she lets me know ... that is great! We got past that, and I said goodnight and I love you and she responded "I love you too." Perfect end to a perfect day.

So why do I feel like a teenager? Because do you remember having the boy or the girlfriend that seemed to think you were everything to them one day and the next day you were a nobody and it went back and forth, a roller coaster ride? Honestly, I never had that relationship because I either never had the self esteem to keep going back for more or I knew I never wanted to feel that bad again so I high tailed it. Once they ignored me the first time I was done!

Well that is the way it is with Mom, one day she totally thinks I hung the moon and the next she treats me like I have a disease, almost mean at times! And my emotions are very teenager'ish during these swings too ... when she is sweet I am giddy ... when she is rude I want to say "Whatever, fine then, I do not have to take this ya know!" But I do not, I just keep a bit more distance between us than I do when we feel like family.

So what will tomorrow bring? Do you think 84 year old women have PMS? Because sometimes I wonder!