Hi gals, I'm not sure if you all know that I've been looking after my Mum who has advanced Dementia.

Well, we were to leave this Wednesday to go to Adelaide to visit my Uncle Brian and his wife on Thursday and catch up with an old friend of Mum's after.

On Good Friday we were flying over to Port Lincoln where my sister was picking us up to take us to her place in Tumby Bay - well it's not happening as I've come down with Covid!

To say I am peeved is an understatement, we have been waiting for months to go as the accommodation and flights were booked back in January. I just couldn't believe it when I took a RAT (Rapid Antigen Test) this morning and it showed positive. It's a very faint line, but what with our quarantine rules here in Australia I am now in quarantine till Easter Sunday, so no Easter services for me.

To top that off I cannot visit Mum who needs daily supervision at the moment. We are awaiting her Commonwealth Home Care Package which arrives at the end of April!!!!!!!!!! Hopefully it will take the onus off me as I am with her every day just to ensure she is taking her medications, eating, drinking, washing etc. She cannot operate the Microwave anymore, or the washing machine and even has trouble with the phone and TV. I bought her a beaut phone with pictures on it and that has helped, but when it comes to actually ringing someone who is not in the pictures, she can't do it. I have to remember to keep calm and just constantly repeat things, it is no different than when we were training our children to do things.

So this week I am on my own as Trev is leaving tomorrow to go to Adelaide. I am going to have a great time on my own as I have a bread maker, a cappuccino maker, lots of food in the fridge and my SEWING to keep me occupied!

To that end I am making pillow cases (like Carolyn has made) to match my beautiful Navy, White and Lemon quilt

It's been a very stressful 2 years and I know it's only going to get worse.

I have decided to go and live with Mum from late afternoon till the morning, just to make sure she is eating a meal for dinner and having breakfast and I also have to constantly remind her to take her medications. Dementia is such a dreadful disease and what makes it worse is that I watched my Father go through the same thing. I am not looking forward to the future.

I've been to an Assisted Living centre, but Mum constantly says she doesn't want to go to a Nursing home as she calls it. I've told her well to that end I need to have more people looking after her in her own home. We will see how long this goes on for.

Please keep me in your daily prayers and thoughts as I've still got a long road ahead of me.

I've also told you that our Redhead Anglican Church shut on the 6th February, well the church I go to (which is 6 houses up the road from me) at Belmont North Anglican Church, called Holy Family will be closing its doors as a church on Sunday 24th April - only 2 weeks away!!!

Our Redhead OpShop has to be out of their premises by the 14th May as the landlord is not renewing our lease and thankfully our Bishop has seen some sense and is letting us use the Belmont North Church as the new Op Shop. Poor Greg our Priest is actually going away on holidays to Thailand just after Easter and won't even be here for the closure. I am devastated at this.

As I've got Covid and can't be with him and our other warden on Tuesday they are going to set up a Zoom meeting so I can be in on the last service preparations.

Well, life is never dull. I pop on daily to look at the Projects and Community so I'm still around, just not doing that much sewing at the moment. Maybe one thing a day at times, but I'm hopeful at getting my life back to some sort of normality this year! Love and blessings Chris