I hope everyone is having a wonderful 4th of July….I love fireworks and sparklers…this has been the quietest 4th of July I can remember…usually our neighbors start all their fireworks a few days before the actual holiday, but this year since there has been no rain and there is a ban on fireworks. It has been quiet, and I miss the noise and the beauty of the fireworks. Every year since we have lived here we have sat out in the backyard and watched all of our neighbors put on a beautiful fireworks display over the lake, but this year…quiet, and no fireworks.

Missy’s birthday is a few days before Christmas and she always felt that her birthday got overlooked…when she met Mike, he started celebrating what he called her summer birthday in July…so usually around the 4th of July he would get her a cake and presents and they would celebrate her summer birthday, the last couple of years so much has been going on, them taking care of me, Missy’s MS…Mikes dad being sick…just life…that her summer birthdays have been forgotten.

Yesterday I wasn’t myself, my old Alzheimer’s took over, I fell, forgetting how to walk again, passed out again, and then slept most of the day. Read more…