6 days in!
Here’s a quick recap by the numbers:
91 : approximately how many cupcakes I baked (for an Alz bake sale and a dinosaur birthday party) AND the age of the line dance instructor at the Rose Park Senior Center where I joined my mom for a few exercise classes. I want to be as spry as him when I’m that old!
20 : the number of pieces of chalk we used! I enjoyed my week helping the Alzheimer’s Association in preparation for the walk which included decorating the path with sidewalk chalk!
95,000+ : dollars raised for The Walk to End Alzheimer’s!!! The goal was $93,000!
0 : the number of to do lists made. Ha that’s not true….
4 : how many power naps I’ve enjoyed. One of which happened while holding an almost full mug of coffee! I’ll work on longer naps during the rest of my sabbatical 🙂
5 : the number of friends/family I don’t get to see often that I got to love on with my extra time off!
2 : the dementia care facilities visited. My parents and I were able to visit a couple of care facilities as options for my almost 98 year old grandmother. She’s still living in the house my dad grew up in! It’ll be a hard transition, but one place seemed like a great option with lots of activities for her.
15 : the number of days I’ll be in Washington (Seattle area) and Canada adventuring with my parents! Starting Tuesday 9/19.
I’ll leave you with this quote from a book I just finished.
“I chose to. I can leave myself to rot in the past, spend my time hating people for what happened, like my father did, or I can forgive and forget.”
“But that’s not easy.”
“Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things. I would have to make a list, a very, very long list and make sure I hated the people on it the right amount. That I did a very proper job of hating, too: very Teutonic! No, we always have a choice. All of us.”