The One Armed Bandit

Pattie took Mom to the Santa Ynez Valley early this month to visit her friend Sholeh. Kyra accompanied them. Sholeh has a beautiful place , with a pool mom and Kyra enjoyed, as well as a native plant yard, which Mom inspected (Not as nice as her yard, of course, but close.) See photo

The Santa Ynez Valley is a few hours north of LA, just above Santa Barbara. Beautiful scenery, lots of wineries (think "Sideways", don't think "Michael Jackson")

All of which Mom loves, but not as much as the slots at the local Chumash Indian Casino! She came away slightly ahead, which, as always means she won big.

Matt

Just some old photos, thanks to Pattie. Including a new take on an old favorite. If anyone has any others
they'd like to share email them to me
at mmlynchla@gmail.com


Mom is doing well, taking daily naps, relaxing on her patio, exploring vegan cooking and of course getting as worked up as everyone else over politics.

We are blessed.


Matthew

Happy Mother's Day

A great day for all of us.

Mary is here visiting Mom, and we all had a great day together. Mom is still doing well, although she has stopped driving at the behest of Aunt Alice, who was here recently.

We had a nice time in the great air on Mom's back patio, Liam and Kyra helped us find the appropriate water guns to spray the squirrels stealing food from Mom's beloved birds. We waited patiently but they hid out from the firepower.

Special thanks to everyone who contributed to Erica and I on the Revlon Run/Walk for Cancer on Saturday. A wonderful day as well.

Matt

More Visitors

All of the prayers are working. Mom is still doing great. Other than naps every day, there are no signs of trouble.

Roni, Jim and Jacob all came to visit last week. We had a nice time...mostly just enjoying the bird watching on Mom's patio. We had an early St. Patrick's Day dinner since they were here.

I finally got my camera photos downloaded, so here's a picture from Mary's visit too.

Still doing well...

Mom went to the Santa Monica Farmers' Market on the 9th and was still able to get around...just a little slower. Matt and Erica joined us there.

Saturday the 16th, Mom's cousins Joe and Linda came up from Orange County for a visit.

She's keeping busy and still says she feels fine. In fact, she doesn't think the nurse needs to come every week. (We're trying to change her mind.)

Roni and Mary visit

Mary came to visit Jan. 23rd to the 27th. Roni came out on the 27th and left on Feb. 2. They mostly hung out with Mom and the rest of us tried to visit with them when we could. Mom is doing much better...sleeping better and able to get around without trouble. She is calling me (Pattie) every day in the morning so we won't worry. We all visit every weekend and one of us is going to visit when the nurses come on Thursdays. Mom drove herself to Mass this morning (Ash Wednesday) and says everything went fine.

Finally...a new post

Sorry for the delays with this post.

Mom has been busy!

The beginning of October we (Mom, Eileen, Kathi and Pattie) went to Yosemite. It was beautiful. A few weeks later we (Mom, Roni, Eileen, Kathi and Pattie) visited all the Massachusetts' relatives. (Well, as many as we could. There are a lot of them!) We (Mom, Roni, Kathi and Pattie) went to Augusta, GA next. There we visited Roni's son Sean, his wife Megan and their daughter IVY! (Mom's great grandchild.) She's so great!

November and December we were busy with Thanksgiving and Christmas, both of which were wonderful.

Sean, Megan and Ivy visited California around the tenth of January. We had a great time hanging out with Ivy again.

Mom had a bladder infection last weekend that threw us all for a loop. She's back in fighting form now, but we will be getting hospice visits once a week now so we can monitor it better.