Getting Ready For Mom

Kylie will be leaving from March 28-April 1 on a trip to Vegas with her husband. Guess who will have mom full time while she is away............yes that is right...........me. On one hand I am looking forward to it, but on the other hand I am not. I always see my mom as she was in the past and not how she is now. We would go to lunch together everyday since we worked at the same place and we would go out to breakfast every Friday. We would go on great shopping trips and sometimes they would be all day and all night shopping trips. It was so much fun. Now since her strokes, it is kinda like I am the mother and all the fun is gone. It feels like she is unale to do anything on her own and that I have to do it all for her. From bathing to walking to even watching TV. In order to even prepare for her stay I have to do some changes at the house so that she can walk without bumping into any furniture, we have to put a bed downstairs so that she does not fall down the stairs in the middle of the night, we have to put baby covers on the doors so that she doesn not mistake outside for the bathrrom, we have to have "rubber sheets" and diapers for nightime. Alot of work will go into this stay. It is just a sad and scary thought to think that all the fun times are out the window and now I am just annoyed. What I have to try to remember is that she does not know any better and that I have to have patience (which I lack completely). I am going to try and make this week with her a fun week. I am going to try and go on a shopping trip and to the movies. If it is not like it was in the past, oh well I have to accept that and I have to make it good for the future. I say this, but can I really do it and think that way? I am certainly going to try!