One of the saddest things about my Mom's Alzheimer's is that she never really got to know her greatgrandchildren. My Mom loved children and babies. There are plenty of pictures of her with her grandchildren, and here she is with all ten of them....
With my daughter Mary (in the middle front in photo above)
And with me, when I was a baby....
When my eldest son was married....
And her first great-grandchild arrived....
And the Christmas eight years ago, when there were three little great-granddaughters....
But by then she already had Alzheimer's, and she never did get to really meet the rest.
My nieces did bring their babies over to visit her, but by then my Mom no longer knew
who any of us were. Every time we had a big family gathering it would make me sad
to think how much she would have enjoyed seeing all the little children, and how they
all had a great-grandma they would never get to know.
My nieces did bring their babies over to visit her, but by then my Mom no longer knew
who any of us were. Every time we had a big family gathering it would make me sad
to think how much she would have enjoyed seeing all the little children, and how they
all had a great-grandma they would never get to know.
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