Deciding to share the journey my family is now taking with my Mother in a Blog was not one I came to lightly. My Mother Marion suffers with dementia, or it may be more accurate to say she has it and we all suffer as we watch the Mother we know and love slowly disappear.

The experience is personal and yet universal as there are literally millions of people who are in the same heartbreaking situation of witnessing someone they know and love mentally depart from their lives. But each of us approaches it in our own way and mine is to write about the light and funny moments.

Although they are the exception and not the rule it has helped me to take this journey with my Mother in a way that I think she would appreciate. She is bright and funny and was always quick with a laugh and a smile. I grew up with the perpetual optimist, a woman who was always grateful for everything she had in life.

I hope to honor her humor, her wit and share the changes we are helpless to stop with honesty. My posts won’t always be light but my focus will always come from a place of gratefulness. Because I am grateful that I have this time with my Mother. From the first moment I have a memory of her until today, she remains my favorite… the best person I have ever known.