Friday, July 19, 2013 Are we going upstairs now...

Last night getting ready for bed, mac said, 'are we going upstairs now..."  perhaps that's from the days when we were in our house and the bedrooms were upstairs..who knows...I often wonder just how much of the past is still with him.  One thing for sure, he is much more at ease, happier, and so at home in our apartment here in Lachine...this we noticed as we came back from the lake.  He was fine at the lake, but home for sure is here.  The worry of if I should drown is not a factor, ha.  Actually that is not really funny, as he watched me constantly while i was swimming - so guess it's better to swim closer to the deck, although i love to swim to a destination like the raft...But these are all minor problems compared with his uncertainty and nervous behaviour at the country last year...so for sure it must be the effects of having good care and a definite routine every day here in our new home.
Some of the neat things we do that give us such   good times are sundown walks , this is such a beautiful place for walks, i don't know if i mentioned that we walk to st stephens and back on sundays...although i like he united church, somehow st stephens church and the welcoming people have found a way into our hearts..(mac sits out in the garden while i am in the church).

 

.Then there are the great people at the Teapot Seniors Club in lachine, just yesterday we were  on the teapot bus to atwater market ....so as you can see we (mac and i) keep busy...and happy- , although i could wish that mac were back to his old self where he knows his past...this is not going to happen, and i'm not about to wallow around and make life miserable, theres too much fun to be had just the way we are..

 

When we were at Atwater market, we stopped for tea and a lovely lunch at the primier moisson there, while i was picking out our food, mac and a couple of elderly men got to chatting, he was so happy, telling them, he used to live not too far from Atwater market..in St. henri, t..and the three men were great...one especially told us how St. Antoine used to be the main shopping areas and that St. Henri...was the downtown of montreal, way before Eatons or Simpsons  etc were established...well this really made Mac's day....

 

Today was a quiet one, just a bit of shopping as we walked in the mall, outside it was a scorcher...but still a happy day as we watched a beautiful sundown from our bedroom window, and now speaking of bedrooms, i have to get the cat settled, and myself...can't believe mischa sleeps with us these nights...how did that happen...g'nite.