FLOWER POT

The other day I was at the craft store and they had their fall flowers on clearance for 80% off, so I purchased an armful, knowing that my mother-in-law loves to do flower arrangements. I took them home and gave them to her and she was so excited that couldn’t even eat dinner. She started working with them right away. About twenty years ago my mother-in-law gave me this cute little wicker plant stand. I finally decided that I didn’t want to use it anymore, so I put it down stairs in our storage room. Yesterday she takes me down stairs to show me what she had been making for me. There in the center of the room was my old plant stand full of the flowers I had purchased. She asked me if I liked the plant stand. She said that she had had it for a long time, and she couldn’t remember where she had gotten it. So of course I tell her I love it.

The cat again!

Last night my mother-in-law and I where reading the news paper after dinner and she says to me. My cat is missing. He must have gotten outside. He hasn't been around for days and he hasn't eaten his food. I say, "the doors have not been open so I don't know how he could have gotten out." She said, "I don't know either but he is gone." She wasn't very upset about it so I went downstairs and there is the cat sitting on my father-in-laws lap. I went back up stairs and told her that the cat was down stairs. She just laughed and said, "OH".

Enchelada corndogs?

Last night after dinner I just happened to head out to the garage for something. As I went through the laundry room something caught my eye. I looked over and saw something on the dryer. I walked over and there was a box of corndogs, a bag of enchelada's, and a snack sized kit kat, luckily still frozen lying there. I am not sure who put them there or what she was going to do with this odd combination. I put them back in the freezer, or tonight we could be having enchelada corndogs for dinner.

Taco Spaghetti

Last night I got home from work and my mother-in-law was cooking spaghetti for dinner. She had cooked some hamburger and added the Ragu and had pasta cooking on the stove. She was hunting for a packed of spaghetti seasoning in the drawer. I told her we did have any. I should have told her that we didn't need any because the Ragu already has the seasoning in it, my father-in-law has been trying to get it through her head that it already does too, but she won't listen. So we set down to eat and it tastes funny so I ask her what she did to it and she shows me a packet of taco seasoning. We had a new creation, "Taco Spaghetti for dinner" I don't recomend it but my husband said it wasn't that bad. Maybe we should have put it in a taco shell.

Picture Frames

My Mother-in-Law has lived with us about 16 Months now and she has been working on putting pictures in frames and rearranging the pictures into different frames off and on the whole time. Every time I go down stairs and she is working on them she will say, “I am almost done.”  She has to tell me about each frame and what she is going to do with it. Then I will pick up a new frame or two for her when I see them on sale for a great price or at yard sales and bring them home to her and then she will start all over again.

Disappearing Meat

One night my husband comes home from work and his mother says, “You have no meat to cook”. My husband knows there is meat out in the garage in our freezer so he heads out there to look. He opens the freezer and she is right, there is no meat. As he closes the door of the freezer he notices a big stack of meat on the floor, stacked about 2 feet high with a roast teetering on the top. Luckily it was still frozen. She looked and him and yelled, "I didn't do it"

Disappearing Booze

My husband likes to drink a little Irish Cream occasionally.  He had purchased a new bottle and had it in the fridge. About a week later he went to get the bottle and it was gone. He asked everyone in the house if they had seen it, no one had. He purchased a new bottle and put it in the fridge again. The next night my daughter came home and her Grandmother was dishing up some ice cream for herself (she loves Ice cream)in a glass and added a lot of the Irish Cream and said, “yum an Irish Cream Float.” Now we hide the Irish Cream from her.

THE CAT

So my father-in-law has gone away for the weekend, so it is up to us to watch mom. I go to bed and leave my husband in charge, since it is his mother. He comes to bed a while later. I am wakened by noises in the kitchen. I wake up my husband and tell him that she is up. He says “dang it, I already put her back to bed three times.  A while later I hear her again, this time she is talking to herself. I see the back yard light go on, so I get up to see what she is doing. Her house cat that does not leave the house is running around the yard. I ask her how the cat got outside and she says that the woman she was talking to let it out.

A little about my situation

OK, So my Mother-in-law was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and my Father-in-law has Macular Degeneration, Diabetes and Emphysema, needless to say they could not live alone anymore. So we moved them away from their home and into ours. They took up residency in our basement with their cat and large dog. Living with the pair has some pretty humorus moments that I thought I would share with the world.