mom is harder on herself

mom always thinks we are going to see her as less then the strong independant women she has always been. Mom we see you as we always have seen you, Yes we are aware you are having more and more problems with the alzheimers. We look beyond the desease to see our mom, our friend. You think we can't cope with the truth, you taught us to be strong women, now let us to be strong for you. I'm not saying it's not sad when we see how far the desease has progressed, but if you let us in we can deal with it as a family, it is when you push us away that we stand there helpless to do anything. We all deal with your desease in different ways, we all can help you though this mom, let us help in the way we deal. You are so stuborn some times you think you still have to do everything by yourself, you don't realize letting people help does not make you weak, it shows courage, and trust that you can lean on us. some times we don't know what to do because we always seem to get it wrong. so we stand back and wait for you to say o.k. now you can help. life doesn't need to be any harder then it already is, enjoy life, let us make momories we can carry with us in the years to come, momories we can pull up like a movie playing in our brain to show us that we let you know exactly how much we love you and we did every thing we could to make this journey just a little bit more easier for you to live with.
you and daddy have taken care of so many kids in your lives, now is the time to just enjoy each other.