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Joy Joy Grandma living with me now.
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Well I now have a house guest. My 95 yo grandmother. Just what I needed. She bitches about everything. She gets mad at me and starts yelling in German and I can only pick up about every 10 words. I love her but having her live with me is hell. Funny how the wife gets along fine with her. She likes my wife so she is nice to her.
Sad but she got to the point that she could not live by herself. I am the only one who would take her in. My sisters wouldn't take her so I got stuck with her. Grandma blames me for taking her from he home but she couldn't stay by her self.
Sad but she got to the point that she could not live by herself. I am the only one who would take her in. My sisters wouldn't take her so I got stuck with her. Grandma blames me for taking her from he home but she couldn't stay by her self.
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Her and my Grandfather would get along, really well!
Clouder..
I feel your pain. Just pray she doesn't get dementia!
Oh no she is sharp as a tack. Yea I love listening to her tell stories of the old days. Alot of interesting stories from when she lived in Germany during the war. Her and grandad migrated the legal way to America.
floor vents, dont beat her. Its probably just a urinary tract infection![:o)][;)]
Clouder..
...Ditto! What an asinine thing to say about your Granma, if you'd get a job, you'd be out of the house more too...[;)]
Back before the 1930's and Social Security, where the current working generation began paying for the old age lives of the previous one by forced payroll deduction. It was the common thing for the old folks to come live w/the children when they got too infirm to take care of themselves.
That way for THOUSANDS of years. And from the looks of things, it might be making a comeback.
so you will learn to cuss like a drunken german soldier .. its her job at 95 to give someone hell..better you than me[:D]
LOL between the illegals that I used to work with teaching me spanish cuss words, the 2 years I spent in Okinawa where I learned to cuss in Japanise, the 13 months in VN, I can cuss you out in several languages.
You should treasure the time she has with you.
All of us are different though.
Welcome to the "good ole days."
Back before the 1930's and Social Security, where the current working generation began paying for the old age lives of the previous one by forced payroll deduction. It was the common thing for the old folks to come live w/the children when they got too infirm to take care of themselves. That way for THOUSANDS of years. And from the looks of things, it might be making a comeback.
Couldn't agree more.
We have become a society that does not want to be inconvenienced by anything in life,.......including our own parents.
I know that dementia is a tough issue, but many don't have that.
Some just like to talk about their younger days.
I love to listen to those stories.
SOMEONE raised your dirty butt, and most likely gave up many things for you,........time to pay it back IMHO.
This is not necessarily aimed at the OP.
thats your parents parent.
honor thy mother and father and you do whatever you can to help.
my granna only lived to 64, and that was 45 years ago.
i WISH i had her today.[:(]
she's being tuff on you because shes a mom. she want you to be tuff. she learned it long before you...the isnt a friendly place, and only the strong survive.[;)]
accept it as her way of training you up right and love her for it. shes a generation missed in this usa. i wish all americans would be as tuff as her.
maybe the world would be afraid us once again.[^]
Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
Former NSSA All American
Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
MO, CT, VA.
I wish I could have met them...
Don
I loved my mother and mother-in-law as much as you can love a mother and mother-in-law, but I knew better than to live within a hundred miles.
Encourage her tales of life through and after the wars. Maybe even record them.
You might try learning from her...See if she will teach you german, or perhaps teach you a million and one other things...They have so much to offer if only ppl would listen...
This is sometimes only realized years later, when it's far too late and regret like crow is a cold tasteless dish.
Thank you BR for the post
Mule
E-me she-me peck po gi da. is all I remember.
ROFLMAO
That one will get you slapped by the juice girls-I know that for a fact. It has been a few years since I thought of that.
She gets mad at me and starts yelling in German
She and my grandfather would have been best friends and talked each others ears off!
Edith from Tennessee was a hoot. She chewed tobacco, had the
funniest laugh, and my only regret is she lived in california
in later years.(Only saw her once before she died.)
Grandma Reichert was still chopping wood in her 80s with an axe.
Knew her the best. A tough, hard working, quiet woman. The
hobo's knew her as a good woman for a meal in the depression.
She had names for her chickens. She taught me how to kill, clean
and dress them for the pot. When she passed, the whole town of
Lindsey Ne was at her funeral. She crocheted
beautiful doillies. She baked bread everyday.
She loved grandpa thru thick n thin. She kept a garden, and
canned every year. Was a great cook. Went to mass everyday.
Never talked about others, hated gossip. She lived in her
house except thru winters until she fell watering her favorite
rose bush with the dishwater. Something we'd tell her not to
do...but that rosebush was something. Area hunters would drop
off their pheasants, quail, rabbits, and she'd clean them. I know
they must miss her too.
The grandmother that raised me from the time I was born died in 1968. That grandmother is the one who was mother to me when my actual mother was no where to be found. The grandmother that is living with me has been my only grandmother since then. She and I have always been close but like I said she thinks that I booted her out of her home when it was my sister's idea all along. She was to the point that she couldn't take care of herself. She was falling alot and couldn't make it up her stairs anymore. Her only bathroom was up stairs so that was a major problem. My house is all one story so she can get around better and my wife is always with her.
Perhaps you could give her a "wing of sorts" of her own if you have the resources...something along the lines of a small apt in your house where she still has her own privacy, her own kitchen, and her own entrance, but you can keep an eye on her....
If that is not workable, at least talk to her, explain you understand how she feels, but you love her and dont want her to fall and hurt herself, explain it was a family decision etc..
Most of all, treat her as an adult and with respect...she deserves it.