It's a Christmas wrap

We had a really nice Christmas Day. A light breakfast of blueberry muffin and scrambled eggs. Then I got the turkey in the oven. It was a Norbest brand. I was happy to see it had one of those pop up temperature thingys that tell you when the turkey is done. Then we opened our stockings with our candy and fun little gifts. I kept teasing dd because she had 2 stockings. Her one we have always had since she was a baby (my mom made it) and then they brought their stockings. 

Kitty decided first thing in the morning he was done hiding up in my office and said to heck with those dogs. He was coming downstairs, LOL.

It had snowed a couple inches the night before and was snowing all morning, so dh shoveled and plowed. At 3 we had dinner and it was really good. I changed my normal routine and made the stuffing while the turkey was cooling down. It was more moist and tasted not so dry to me.

We had commented to each other all day how well mom was doing. Not asking the same questions over and over. It was much more pleasant. By 5 pm we were all in the living room in a turkey coma falling asleep, except mom. DH was asleep in the recliner. DD had just fallen asleep leaned on the arm of the loveseat. SIL was about to fall asleep and I was super tired. I got up to go lay down in my bedroom. Mom was doing crossword puzzle book. About 50 minutes later I got up. Everyone had just woken up. Mom had turned confused. She asked what time it was. 6 o'clock. Morning or night? oh oh. 

I have this big farmhouse clock on the wall you can see from the sofa. She kept looking at it and having trouble reading what time it was. 6:30, 7:00, 7:25. She kept saying oh I guess its time for bed. I said no it's only 6:30, it's only 7.... "Oh - I guess I'm reading that wrong". She was just fixated on that clock every 15 minutes or so. We were all chatting about various things. DH said we love our house and living here. Then she said it's too bad you can't live here full time. What?? I said we do live here full time. Then a few minutes later she said it again. I said no, we live here all the time. We can't afford 2 houses! LOL. Finally at 8pm I turned the tv on and the movie My Cousin Vinny was on for another hour. I was hoping that might distract her from the clock on the wall and it did.

The only thing she had seemed to be having trouble remembering all day was that she had already given us checks as a gift. I kept having to remind her she already wrote checks.

We knew it was going to be a bad night for awhile when she went to bed at 9. She had trouble finding the stairs (it's all open and the stairs are right there) and then she got up stairs and said "now what room number am I in? I went up with there and tried to settle her in. DD and I stayed up stairs in the loft sitting area for awhile to make sure she turned the bedroom light off. Finally she did and we went downstairs. I had left my sweater upstairs and went to get it about 15 minutes later. I could see the bedroom light on coming from under the shut door. Damn. DD came up. We waited a bit to see if she turned it back off. I quietly went and stood by the door to see if I could hear her doing anything. I was hearing this "tick" "tick" noise. She was messing with the alarm clock. I knocked and went in. Sure enough she was trying to set the alarm and was changing the time. oh, we are not going through that again. I set the time and again said there is no set time to get up in the morning. We are in no hurry. Ok ok. About half hour or so later dd went upstairs for something and it appeared she had the bedside lamp on now. Faint light coming under the door. Damn. 

Back upstairs I went. Tapped on the door and started to open it, and she had the nightstand blocking the door! When I bumped the door into it I said "mom...." she was like oh, just a minute, hold on and she moved the night stand over. I said why do you have this blocking the door? she said she didn't want anyone to get in. I said well, you are in my home and no one is going to get in or go in your room. It's just us here and it's safe. Apparently she thought we were at a hotel. I talked to her for awhile and after that she slept the rest of the night. I wonder why it's always the 2nd night that she has this problem. 

When she got up SIL was in the bathroom (down the hall from her room) and I guess she knocked on the door. He had just gone in to take a shower but came out to let her use it. She had carried her purse with her and left it on the floor outside the bathroom door. When she was done and going back into her room I had just come up to check on her and she was still confused. Thought we were staying in a hotel. I said let's go downstairs and have some coffee and breakfast and then you can take a shower after. She asked me where she should leave her purse. I said just on the dresser or your bed. She said she didn't any one to take it. I said you are here at my home, mom, no one is going to take your purse. She said oh, I thought we were staying someplace else.

We had really wanted to get her back to her place later morning but it was snowing pretty hard all morning. Finally at 11am it stopped. We had lunch just before noon and SIL drove again and we left a little after noon. The highway wasn't bad at all, just the side roads. We got her back home, got her tv working, her medication dispenser filled up, some of her clothes put away. The whole drive there she kept saying she should have bought us lunch. I kept having to say we already had lunch before we left. She also kept saying I want to pay for them to fill up their tank with gas. Finally I just told her we'd take care of it after we dropped her off.

While it was hard seeing her so confused again that night, it wasn't near as bad as Thanksgiving night. Probably because I knew to expect it and try to avert it as much as possible.